Re: automatic APN selection

[Alex Ferm <aferm petropower com>]

Sorry, I meant "sim-operator-id". "sim-id" wouldn't work, as it is 
unique to each sim card.

Alex Ferm
PetroPower, LLC.
3003 E. 37th Street N.
Suite 100
Wichita, KS 67219

On 2/12/19 9:56 AM, Alex Ferm wrote:
> Hey, just so you know this basically exists. You just need to create a 
> connection profiles with the correct "sim-id" "apn" pairs. Some users, 
> myself included, wouldn't want this to be automatic because we use 
> private APNs, but you could easily put together an optional package of 
> connection files that accomplishes this.
>
> Alex Ferm
> PetroPower, LLC.
> 3003 E. 37th Street N.
> Suite 100
> Wichita, KS 67219
>
> On 2/12/19 7:33 AM, Aleksander Morgado wrote:
> > Hey,
> >
> > > > I posted yesterday question to ModemManger mailing list about
> > > > implementing automatic APN selection (based on mobile broadband
> > > > database) and it was pointed [0] out that this feature should be
> > > > added to NM. My case is that embedded device using GSM modem should
> > > > connect to internet automatically (without user intervention only by
> > > > plugging SIM card). Isomebody working on such solution already? It is
> > > > right approach? Thanks for replies.
> > > >
> > > > 0 -
> > > > https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/modemmanager-devel/2019-February/006996.html 
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > sounds reasonable to me.
> > >
> > >
> > > Maybe the first step would be to move the code from libnma (network-
> > > manager-applet) to libnm (NetworkManager) to handle the mobile-
> > > provider-database. Or maybe better, make it an independent libnm-
> > > mobile-provider-database.so library to keep core libnm smaller.
> > >
> > > As it is, NetworkManager certainly cannot link against libnma.
> > >
> > >
> > > [1] 
> > > https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/network-manager-applet/blob/master/src/libnma/nma-mobile-providers.c
> > Also, I'd like to emphasize that IMHO this should not be the default
> > in NM. Automatically selecting what APN to use should be explicitly
> > enabled by the user somehow. Companies doing custom setups with MM+NM
> > can enable this feature, even providing a "controlled" subset of the
> > mobile-broadband-providers-info database, and that specific use case
> > makes total sense.