On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 01:20:25PM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > > > > > > > > Is there a reliable way to detect that though? If I tether via my > > > > phone or > > > > turn my phone into a hotspot it comes up as Ethernet or WiFi, > > > > respectively. > > > > It seems like we are going to run into the same issue that > > > > Microsoft > > > > is > > > > where automatic downloads are giving people bill shock. > > > > > > AIUI, NetworkManager is working on more sophisticated detection of > > > tethering, but right now it doesn't have it. Tethered wifi will be > > > treated as an unmetered connection. I think NM does already treat > > > USB > > > tethering as metered. > > > > It's already available in NM 1.0.6: > > https://blogs.gnome.org/lkundrak/2015/08/27/networkmanager-1-0-6-brin > > gs-metered-connections-api-and-more/ > > 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. -- Tomasz Torcz ,,If you try to upissue this patchset I shall be seeking xmpp: zdzichubg@xxxxxxxxx an IP-routable hand grenade.'' -- Andrew Morton (LKML) -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
