----- Original Message -----
> From: "Gero Müller" <[email protected]>
> 
> Hello NetworkManager Developers,
> 
> i use Archlinux and would like to use the route metric option to
> prefer my wired connection to my router over my wireless connection.

You don't actually need metric for that. It's just one way to achieve such 
thing. The only thing you need is for NetworkManager to resolve duplicate 
routes properly for you. I'm keeping this in my mind and will eventually get to 
it but fell free to start a bugzilla ticket if you want to track it. If you do 
that, please include the details of conflicting routing entries and put me in 
Cc.

> By default dhcpcd does this already by using a +100 metric for
> wireless interfaces.

Metric is one way to do that but I'm not yet sure whether it's the best one. 
For device routes, it may be a good choice, we'll see.

> But when used via NetworkManager, all metric values are 0.

When dhcpcd or dhclient are used with NetworkManager, they are used as DHCP 
clients (software that connects to DHCP servers and requests information). When 
they are used separately, they act as network configure daemons and that would 
interfere with NetworkManager's role as a network daemon.

> How can i make NetworkManager leaving the metric value as before/default?

There's no before/default, there are only the routes set up by NetworkManager. 
You could possibly do some magic with dispatcher.d scripts. But this is really 
a lack of feature in NetworkManager or bug, depending on what point of view 
you're using.

Cheers,

Pavel
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