Legacy Ethernet/Wi-Fi metrics

Image releases before 22.10 are using systemd as a network service.

If you want to change the metric of Ethernet or WiFi interface, you can follow these steps:

Step 1. Modify the interface configuration files

Access the following configuration files and modify the metric field with the desired metric value:

• Ethernet Interface: /etc/systemd/network/20-eth0.network
• WiFi Interface: /etc/systemd/network/21-wlan0.network

Step 2. Restart the service

systemctl restart systemd-networkd

Step 3. Check the new metrics

You can check the new metrics value using one of the following commands:

route -n
ip r