On Mon, 2016-10-31 at 09:13 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Mon, 2016-10-31 at 08:18 -0400, Bastien Nocera wrote: > > > > How does a connection become "unmetered"? It can't just be on interface type, > > > as I have metered connections on all interface types, so presumably you use > > > some form of web service to distinguish "metered" from "unmetered" based on > > > a list of known IP blocks? > > > > > > Or do you simply assume that all connections are metered until the user says > > > otherwise? > > > > They're metered unless you either tag them as unmetered, or hints are provided > > to NetworkManager by what you're connected to. For example, Android tethering > > is automatically tagged as metered as Android provides a hint in its DHCP > > configuration. > > Does NetworkManager 'hint' that wired connections are unmetered? > Otherwise your description doesn't seem to square with the fact that > most everyone sees background update downloads OOTB. > > Even still, in fact, kparal mentioned them happening on hotel wifi, so > why would that be the case if the default is 'metered'? For that matter, I'm fairly sure I've seen background update downloading happen when I was using an Android wifi tether connection. I'm pretty sure I remember it blowing my data cap one month when I was using my laptop on the bus. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net _______________________________________________ desktop mailing list -- desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to desktop-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
