[Bug 1879211] Re: Charging my cellphone through usb breaks internet connection.

2020-07-23 Thread Launchpad Bug Tracker
[Expired for network-manager (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.] ** Changed in: network-manager (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Expired -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1879211] Re: Charging my cellphone through usb breaks internet connection.

2020-05-23 Thread Tomás Zubiri
@AlexMurray Genuine question. Does this mean that I shouldn't connect untrusted usb devices to my computer because it can unilaterally decide to snoop my traffic? So far my understanding has been that usb devices cannot run arbitrary programs and are thus safe to connect, with the exception of

[Bug 1879211] Re: Charging my cellphone through usb breaks internet connection.

2020-05-22 Thread Tomás Zubiri
Sensible. If that were the case, a solution would rely in the capacity of the network manager to detect that the new route does not work,(and that the previous one did) My naïve solution would be to ping a reliable server (I use 8.8.8.8) and delete the new route if it timesout. Additionally, if

[Bug 1879211] Re: Charging my cellphone through usb breaks internet connection.

2020-05-22 Thread Sebastien Bacher
** Changed in: network-manager (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Low ** Changed in: network-manager (Ubuntu) Status: New => Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1879211

[Bug 1879211] Re: Charging my cellphone through usb breaks internet connection.

2020-05-21 Thread Alex Murray
One more thing - I expect your phone has USB Tethering enabled - and so presents itself as an rndis USB/ethernet device - and then network manager uses this as a preferred interface to route traffic through rather than the wireless interface. -- You received this bug notification because you are

[Bug 1879211] Re: Charging my cellphone through usb breaks internet connection.

2020-05-21 Thread Alex Murray
This doesn't seem like a security issue to me - I believe this is the default behaviour when using network manager for tethering - it will route traffic via the tethered device. I am reassigning this against network-manager which is likely doing the route setup. ** Information type changed from