Connections

Connect to packet data APNs to be assigned IP addresses and send/receive data.

Multiple active data connections can be used to connect to multiple APNs concurrently when using SIMs that support this feature. For example, a SIM may support a public internet APN and a private network APN at the same time.

Connection

A data connection on the cellular modem.

  • APNs - When connecting to the cellular network, each configured APN will be tried in the listed order until a successful IPv4 or IPv6 connection is established.
  • IPv4 - The data connection's IPv4 information.
  • IPv6 - The data connection's IPv6 information.
  • Interface

Properties

Enable

Enable this connection.

  • Data type: boolean
  • Default: true
  • Configuration

CLI: (cli)> config network cellular connection <index> enable

Label

The label used to help identify and describe the connection.

  • Data type: string
  • Configuration
  • Optional

CLI: (cli)> config network cellular connection <index> label

Connected

Set when an IPv4 and/or IPv6 connection has been established.

OptionLabel
trueConnected
falseNot connected
  • Data type: boolean
  • Status

CLI: (cli)> show network cellular connection <index> connected

Status

The status message describes the state of the cellular connection process.

  • Data type: string
  • Status

CLI: (cli)> show network cellular connection <index> status

Connection attempts

While trying to connect to the cellular network, this is the number of attempts made to establish the connection using the current SIM.

The connection attempts counter is incremented when the process has failed to connect with all APNs being tried.

  • Data type: integer
  • Status

CLI: (cli)> show network cellular connection <index> attempts

Configured APN

The APN that the connection process has set into the modem's PDP context.

  • Data type: string
  • Status

CLI: (cli)> show network cellular connection <index> apn-config

Activated APN

The APN that the modem has currently active for this connection.

  • Data type: string
  • Status

CLI: (cli)> show network cellular connection <index> apn-activated

Metric

The network metric used for routing this connection.

  • Data type: integer
  • Default: 10
  • Configuration
  • Required

CLI: (cli)> config network cellular connection <index> metric