Re: Why is NM preferring wwan over wifi?

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Sun, 2015-06-14 at 10:10 +0200, Tore Anderson wrote:
> I've noticed that a default route on a wifi network is assigned a
> default metric of 600, while a default route on a wwan connection 
> gets
> a default metric of 450.
>
> The effect of this is that the host will prefer to use wwan over wifi
> when both are enabled. That's the exact opposite of what I'd expect
> (based on precedent set by pretty much every smart-phone in the 
> world).
>
> While I can easily set different route-metrics on the connections in
> question, I'm just wondering whether or not this order of preference 
> is
> really intentional?
>
> Curiously enough, when both wifi and wwan are connected, the
> nm-applet's systray will display the wifi icon (not the wwan one with
> the little antenna), tricking me into believing that the wifi is 
> indeed
> the "active" connection.

Completely agree with you, which is why I filed that as a bug:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=744754