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.
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Adam Williamson
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