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man: explain purpose of connectivity checking in man NetworkManager.conf

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checking functionality. This allows NetworkManager to detect
whether or not the system can actually access the internet or
whether it is behind a captive portal.</para>
<para>Connectivity checking serves two purposes. For one, it exposes
a connectivity state on D-Bus, which other applications may use. For example,
Gnome's portal helper uses this as signal to show a captive portal login
page.
The other use is that default-route of devices without global connectivity
get a penalty of +20000 to the route-metric. This has the purpose to give a
better default-route to devices that have global connectivity. For example,
when being connected to WWAN and to a Wi-Fi network which is behind a captive
portal, WWAN still gets preferred until login.</para>
<para>
<variablelist>