11-06-2020, 05:23 PM
Applications that try IPv6 connections first seem to use mobile data when the mobile data connection wwan0 has a valid IPv6 address and route when the wifi wlan0 only has IPv4. I suspect this is the reason why my November prepaid 500mb data has been consumed. It's my PinePhone test sim, so no loss.
RedPocket a US MVNO on T-Mobile provides dual stack IPv4 and IPv6 connectivity. My home ISP does not provide IPv6 connectivity. This mismatch seems to be causing problems. My Mobian PinePhone was connected to my home network via usb-ethernet, wifi(wlan0) and mobile data(wwan0) when I apt installed some programs. The download process seems slow and then failed. I didn't check apt's download connections but I suspect they were using IPv6. Consumed the remaining monthly data allowance and then started to fail.
Any thoughts on adjusting the default Mobian routing to prevent applications from using IPv6 wwan0 mobile data when IPv4 WIFI or Ethernet is available? I assume there are some networking setting that can be used.
IPv6 could be disabled, not my preferred solution. T-Mobile and its MVNOs seems to prefer MMS messages get downloaded via IPv6. I've been using Janky-mms and would like to continue to have the ability to download MMS content.
RedPocket a US MVNO on T-Mobile provides dual stack IPv4 and IPv6 connectivity. My home ISP does not provide IPv6 connectivity. This mismatch seems to be causing problems. My Mobian PinePhone was connected to my home network via usb-ethernet, wifi(wlan0) and mobile data(wwan0) when I apt installed some programs. The download process seems slow and then failed. I didn't check apt's download connections but I suspect they were using IPv6. Consumed the remaining monthly data allowance and then started to fail.
Any thoughts on adjusting the default Mobian routing to prevent applications from using IPv6 wwan0 mobile data when IPv4 WIFI or Ethernet is available? I assume there are some networking setting that can be used.
IPv6 could be disabled, not my preferred solution. T-Mobile and its MVNOs seems to prefer MMS messages get downloaded via IPv6. I've been using Janky-mms and would like to continue to have the ability to download MMS content.
