Sometimes we want to have several connections at the same time, one to the ethernet (wired lan) and one other to the wireless router, with two different gateways. In this documentation i describe how to make wireless connection prior to ethernet connection in each linux OS using NetworkManager service to moderate network connections. I’ve tested these instruction in fedora 31 already.
List Your Connections
% nmcli connection
NAME UUID TYPE DEVICE
sample1 a16d1a96-2833-4876-a6c2-************ vpn wlp0s20f0u11
bevaght f46ba9ff-1114-4e79-9c8a-************ wifi wlp0s20f0u11
eth1 7648e3eb-c03f-46e9-b24e-************ ethernet enp2s0
Edit the wireless connection
$ nmcli connection edit bevaght ===| nmcli interactive connection editor |=== Editing existing '802-11-wireless' connection: 'bevaght' Type 'help' or '?' for available commands. Type 'print' to show all the connection properties. Type 'describe [<setting>.<prop>]' for detailed property description. You may edit the following settings: connection, 802-11-wireless (wifi), 802-11-wireless-security (wifi-sec), 802-1x, ethtool, match, ipv4, ipv6, tc, proxy nmcli> set ipv4.route-metric 10 nmcli> save nmcli> quit
Edit the ethernet connection
$ nmcli connection edit eth1
===| nmcli interactive connection editor |===
Editing existing '802-3-ethernet' connection: 'eth1'
Type 'help' or '?' for available commands.
Type 'print' to show all the connection properties.
Type 'describe [<setting>.<prop>]' for detailed property description.
You may edit the following settings: connection, 802-3-ethernet (ethernet), 802-1x, dcb, sriov, ethtool, match, ipv4, ipv6, tc, proxy
nmcli> set ipv4.route-metric 2000
nmcli> save
nmcli> quit
Restart NetworkManager service
$ sudo systemctl restart NetworkManager
Congratulation! routes related to the WiFi connection named bevaght are prior to routes related to the Ethernet connection named eth1
$ route -n
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
0.0.0.0 192.168.0.1 0.0.0.0 UG 10 0 0 wlp0s20f0u11
0.0.0.0 192.168.1.1 0.0.0.0 UG 2000 0 0 enp2s0