u-blox released the following guidance in June 2020 on the TOBY-L2, TOBY-R2, 
and LARA-R2 to setup your APN you want to connect to as the initial bearer at 
CID=1.

https://www.u-blox.com/sites/default/files/LTE-initial-default-bearer_AppNote_%28UBX-20015573%29.pdf

These modems already have a default CID=1 APN setup that is generic and 
ModemManager then uses another CID based on the APN you want to use and the IP 
type (IPv4, IPv6, both).  When I manually modified the modem's CID=1 entry to 
the correct APN and IP type to match what ModemManager is trying to use, the 
modem connected so much faster with ModemManager and did not have as many 
issues with re-connection times.

I am interested in making changes to ModemManager to implement always using 
CID=1 for these modems.  I know the code that handles the CID selection and 
creation of new ones if there is no a match is in src/mm-broadband-bearer.c.  I 
also know there is a plugin for u-blox that can detect model types.  What I am 
not sure how to do is override the functions in src/mm-broadband-bearer.c with 
ones that will be in the u-blox plugin.  The AT command u-blox uses to modify 
CIDs is AT+CGDCONT.

Additionally I still want to use the code in src/mm-broadband-bearer.c for all 
other u-blox modems that don't match these models.

Another difficult part of this is the modem needs to be de-registered from the 
network when changing CID=1 if the APN and IP type do not match what the 
ModemManager APN and IP type are.  The modems use AT+CFUN to put the modem in 
airplane mode and back to full mode when changing the CID=1 APN settings.  I 
don't think this works with the current data connection flow in ModemManager.

I am currently using the ModemManager 1.8.X series, but could implement the 
changes on the newest version and the back port them for the product I am 
working on.  I plan to update to the newest ModemManager eventually, but if 
updating now makes this easier to implement, then I might do that sooner than 
originally planned.

I would really appreciate some guidance on how I would best go about 
implementing these changes.  Thanks.

Best Regards,

Matthew Starr
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