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network-manager-openvpn package

  1. Bug #1831483
  2. Comment #5

Comment 5 for bug 1831483

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In , Thomas Haller (thaller-1) wrote :

The route-metric has a per-device-type-default [1] and this global default can be overwritten (globally) [2].\

But more importantly, you can configure the route-metric per-connection too. Ok, it's not as granular as "route by route", but it's also more then "can be set globally only"!

I suspect that is sufficient to model your use-case, or why not?
Say, you connect to your office sites via a ethernet connection. If you configure it to have route-metric 49, then you'll get:

 default via eth0 metric 49
 172.16.42.0/24 via eth0 metric 49
 172.16.0.0/16 via vpn metric 50

if you plugin your notebook in office-site #2 you'll get:

 default via eth0 metric 49
 172.16.23.0/24 via eth0 metric 49
 172.16.0.0/16 via vpn metric 50

[1] 50 for VPN, 100 for ethernet, 600 for Wi-Fi, etc.
[2] see CONNECTION SECTION in `man NetworkManager.conf`