On Tue, 2015-09-29 at 22:26 +0200, Tomasz Torcz wrote:
I don't see anything in that which says it detects wifi
tethering.
> 'capture portal detection' is something else, and exposing whether
> a
> connection is metered or not through the API is nice, but doesn't
> mean
> the information it exposes is actually *correct* or has changed in
> any
> way.
>
> I'm not saying it's *not* in 1.0.6, just that that text doesn't
> seem to
> say it is. :)
Ekhm, let me cite a bullet point straight from this post:
#v+
– We now expose information on whether a particular connection is
metered. It’s
intended for tools like package managers that like pre-fetch large
amount of
data to be able to avoid increasing your Mobile connectivity bills.
#v-
It's pretty clear, isn't it? It's not hard technically, DHCP client
have to watch for ANDROID_METERED in option 43 and pass thath
information
further up the stack.
It's clear, yes, it just doesn't mean what you think it means. It's the
addition of a public interface to NM's internal concept of 'metered',
which has been around for some time. It does *not* necessarily mean
that NM detects tethering and marks tethered connections as 'metered'.
I know it didn't used to do that, and that there's been some kind of
plan to add it; I don't know if it's actually been added yet, and if
so, if it's in 1.0.6, and that text does not state either way.
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