On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 11:58 AM, Fred Smith
<fredex(a)fcshome.stoneham.ma.us> wrote:
On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 11:38:22AM -0600, Chris Murphy wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 11:01 AM, Rick Stevens <ricks(a)alldigital.com> wrote:
> > On 06/10/2016 09:42 AM, Chris Murphy wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> How do I tell NetworkManager to default to wireless? The environment
> >> I'm in provides internet only via wireless, so that needs to be the
> >> default route, if that's the proper term. Right now it's defaulting
to
> >> wired and since there's no internet via that route, the web browser
> >> hangs.
> >>
> >> I would have though for wired, setting "Use this connection only for
> >> resources on its network" would do that, but it doesn't.
> >
> >
> > I don't even have that option in my NM applet. I could untick
> > "Automatically connect to this network when it is available" in my NM
> > applet for the wired connection.
>
> If you click on IPv4 and scroll down under Routes, "Use this
> connection only for resources on its network" but I have no idea what
> that does.
did you ever connect to a VPN and discover that you then cannot access
anything on your localnetwork, or out on the internet?
Yes.
if you check that box it doesn't block all those other
systems/networks,
sending only the things that need to go to that connection to it and
letting everything else be routed as it always has before.
That's very cool but I think I'd stick it in the VPN connection
configuration. I suspect whether you want this passthrough to work
might depend on which VPN connection you're using. But anyway...
So what I think is going on here, when I look at the output from
'nmcli c show' for wifi and wired connections is this:
Wired:
GENERAL.DEFAULT: yes
Wireless:
GENERAL.DEFAULT: no
That's the only meaningful difference I can see between these two.
While I can change this with nmcli, I don't see anything in the GUI
for choosing a preferred or default connection/interface.
--
Chris Murphy