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Is there a way to know what connection I'm using?

rated 0 times [ 2] [ 0] / answers: 1 / hits: 5760 / 3 Years ago, sun, october 17, 2021, 10:35:35

The reason I ask is because I want to know if I will achive higher speeds if I'm connected to both than just one connection. Also when I'm gaming (on the internet) if I just use the wireless I always drop out after a while, but I don't if I use both!

I'm connected to both the wireless and the wired connection.

How can I know what connection I'm using?

Am I using both at the same time?

Which one is the one I get my IP-address from?

This was an interesting result of nm-tool | route

Kernel IP routing table

Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface

192.168.1.0     *               255.255.255.0   U     1      0        0 eth0

192.168.1.0     *               255.255.255.0   U     2      0        0 wlan0

I want to know where the "main" amount of packages are sent. So if I'm connected to both I would like to know which one has the most weight put on it?

The router is a D-link 524.

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answered 3 Years ago asketbridiculou · Accepted Answer

If you have more than one network connection active at one time (each one with its IP address), it is the routing table that should determine which one is used for a particular request.

If you are using Network Manager, the command

nm-tool | grep -i 'device|state'

should give you information about the active connection, and the output of route should give you information about which interface is used to reach a particular IP address.

Given your routing table, both interfaces have the same route, but eth0 is preferred because of a minor metric.

The conclusion should be that you are only using eth0, this can be verified with ifconfig, look at the Byte RX and Byte TX fields.