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  • Note that bonding interfaces only works if the communication partner (e.g. the home router) also bonds the interfaces in the same way. In particular, this setup will force all other clients to be both on LAN and WLAN, and have configured it the same way. Commented Mar 1, 2018 at 12:59
  • Your statement is not completly right. If you use LACP(bond mode 4) yes, you will need a network asset that is IEEE 802.3ad readly, a protocol that is comonly known as "port-channel" on Dell and Cisco Switches. If you use bond mode 1, there is no need of a special protocol to negotiate link failover. Bond 1 will deal with Mac changes - wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/BondingInterfaces - I'm also assuming here based on the IP addressing used by OP, that he/she has a AccessPoint that uses the same network(192.168.0.0/24) to both wired and wireless, making this setup with bond 1 possible Commented Mar 1, 2018 at 17:44
  • Bond 1 (failover mode) will only use one network adapter, or in other words, "the best you can do is to use some kind of fallback mechanism", as I said in the comment above. It's not the same as "having routing to the internet with multiple interfaces". Commented Mar 1, 2018 at 17:55
  • I gave one OPTION to one who is asking that will not require changing ip address to wireless neither messing with ip rules, ip route tables an iptables, the same way it seems that he/she is using an home router and not an equipment that is prepared for dealing with LACP... Commented Mar 1, 2018 at 17:59
  • Sometimes if you keep the default route empty, there's nothing allowing a packet to reach the correct iptables entry that will alter this default route. It's still best to have a default route (even a never working route), even if it will be overriden with some rules, just to have those rule be actually working Commented Mar 4, 2018 at 15:56