On So, 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?
IIRC, dcbw said, the idea is that you connected to wwan intentionally. wwan might be metered and you would only connect to it if you want to use it. Maybe that reasoning was better years ago then nowadays. It is unexpected for me too. On master you can also drop a configuration snippet: [connection.wwan-route-metric] match-device=type:wifi ipv4.route-metric=400 ipv6.route-metric=400
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
that sounds like a bug to me that should be investigated. Thomas
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