Re: Altering preferred connection

[Colin Helliwell <colin helliwell ln-systems com>]

> On 03 July 2017 at 14:32 Colin Helliwell <colin helliwell ln-systems com> wrote:
>
> Thanks for the tips, Thomas [but see below]
...

> > An alternative, a bit more graceful is
> >
> > nmcli connection modify "$CON" ipv4.route-metric 42
> >  nmcli device reapply "$DEV"
>
> These two commands are accepted, but 'route -n' doesn't indicate any change to the metric?
>
> (This might be a side/different issue, but I tried a 'nmcli conn "$CON" up' in case that would help, and 
> get "Error: Connection activation failed: Network registration timed out" - might be a different problem)

To be fair, that issue might have been a case of ModemManager needing to catch up with the state of the world 
- 5mins later an it came up again ok.