Bug 1200452

Summary:	feature request: provide information about metered connections
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7	Reporter:	Matthias Clasen <mclasen>
Component:	NetworkManager	Assignee:	Beniamino Galvani <bgalvani>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Desktop QE <desktop-qa-list>
Severity:	high	Docs Contact:
Priority:	high
Version:	7.3	CC:	bgalvani, danw, dcbw, jklimes, lrintel, rkhan, thaller, tpelka, vbenes
Target Milestone:	rc
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Fixed In Version:	NetworkManager-1.0.6-1.el7	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
Doc Text:	NetworkManager now indicates if a connection is metered.	Story Points:	---
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Last Closed:	2015-11-19 11:00:56 UTC	Type:	Bug
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Description Matthias Clasen 2015-03-10 15:20:03 UTC

PackageKit currently uses (homegrown) heuristics to avoid downloading large amounts of updates when the connection looks like it might be 'expensive'.
It would be nice if NetworkManager made this information available in a systematic (and probably more reliable) way.

See https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=741725

Comment 2 Beniamino Galvani 2015-06-09 20:37:17 UTC

Upstream commit 7d09debdf0b1bd6d76a645d5195e89e3ad16892f

Comment 4 Vladimir Benes 2015-09-04 11:43:17 UTC

Feature was verified on all supported architectures. Manual yes/no and guess yes/no with ANDROID_METERED flag is now visible to 3rd party apps via dbus.

Comment 5 errata-xmlrpc 2015-11-19 11:00:56 UTC

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-2315.html