Always use eth0 for xbmc

[Roy Terhaar]

@mk01

First of all thanks for your help. Most appreciated.

I have tried option 2 before with no succes, but this evening I tried again. But it's giving me the same result. xbmc shows wlan0 as the active interface. A bit strange however is that it shows the DNS settings of eth0 (!?!).
But I am pretty sure it uses wlan0; it does not show the correct time on the screen as it does not have internet connection via wlan0 and also any other network service fails.

Option 1 is something that should work, but I have never compiled xbmc before and the setback is on version updates you have to recompile, so I am not very eager to do this time after time again.

I have never heared of option 3. With a bit of google-ing I found out that you might run into security issues and also I would like to keep things as standard as possible.

In the end it's a bit of a design issue of xbmc. I don't understand that there is a nice xbian-config gui and xbian-config command line interface that shows your network interfaces, but does not let you select which interface you want to use and instead uses 'smart' logic which ends up in using wlan0. But I guess that's the way it is now.

Maybe I should buy another RPi and use the one I currently have dedicated for xbmc (on eth0) and use the new one for all the other stuff (on wlan0).

But if anyone found an easy way to get my problem solved, please let me know.

For now thanks again for your time to help.