Take the 2-minute tour ×  Situation I'm temporarily without a
fixed Internet connection on my desktop computer. I'm using my
HTC Magic as a 3G dongle through usb0. I also want to be able to
print on my Samsung printer connected through Ethernet on eth0.
So i set up eth0 to have static IP and installed dhcp3 server.
The problem As soon as I enable eth0 I cannot browse the
Internet anymore because the static IP-address gets added to my
routing table.  Found solution Manually delete eth0 as the
default gateway after enabling the interface.  Possible better
solution Give permanent priority to my usb0 connection.
Question Is it possible to give priority to a certain network
connection? How?  share|improve this question I have asked for a
similar question - superuser.com/questions/331720/… –  Praveen
Sripati Sep 9 '11 at 18:57  3 Answers 3  up vote 8 down vote
accepted  As I was using the Networking utility in Ubuntu to
configure my Network Connections the settings in
/etc/network/interfaces are apparently ignore