Please provide a way to prevent NM from configuring particular devices

[Anders Dånmark]

Binary package hint: network-manager

When i connect my phone(HTC desire) network manager auto connects to internet through the phone.

This i behavior is not great since not all people have unlimited data on their accounts. I have 5Gb / month and i dont want to waste it on background services when all I want to do is charge my phone. Most (if not all) new phones will use usb for charging and to always autoconnect when plugged into computer is hardly perfect.

Steps to reproduce

1. Connect phone to computer

[Thomas Hood (jdthood)]

Should be wishlist, I guess.

[Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (cyphermox)]

Triaged/Wishlist, it's mostly just a matter of someone spending some time to implement this in NM.

As a workaround, you might be able to save the "Auto" device created, keep it Autoconnect but in Routes check "Use this device only for the resources on its network", so that it won't get the default gateway (and thus not send internet traffic over the phone).