Re: Reload from Config File

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Mon, 2014-01-06 at 14:34 -0400, Jorge Fábregas wrote:
> On 01/06/2014 12:54 PM, Dan Williams wrote:
> > Manually modifying ifcfg files is definitely supported, though by
> > default you'll need to use "nmcli con reload" to tell NetworkManager
> > that you've made a change directly.  (Alternatively, NM can
> > automatically notice changes if you set "monitor-connection-files=yes"
> > in the [main] section of NetworkManager.conf).
>
> I just tried this and works like a charm!  I had no idea about this
> option.  Thanks.
>
>
> > NetworkManager 0.9 and later try to be better team players in the
> > system, and will read the existing configuration from a network
> > interface on startup and use that as a "runtime" connection.  Which is
> > why your restart didn't apply that changed configuration, because NM
> > picked up the interface's existing configuration.
> >
> > To apply changes that you've made, either through the GUI tools or
> > through direct editing of config files, or through nmcli, you want to do
> > a "reconnect" cycle:
> >
> > nmcli dev disconnect em1
> > nmcli con up my-new-em1
>
> Ok, I removed the monitor-connection-files' option and bounced the
> service and then modified the ifcfg-* file and tried the above commands
> but it doesn't work.  It doesn't pick-up the changes.  I even tried:
>
> nmcli con down my-new-em1
> nmcli dev disconnect em1
> nmcli con up my-new-em1
> nmcli con reload

Sorry about that, I was unclear.  You'd actually want:

dev disconnect
reload
con up

the reload has to happen before the connection is brought up, since it's
brought up with the values NM knows about, and those aren't updated
until 'reload' is done.

Dan

> ...but still the same problem.
>
> Is there any missing command to perform the proper reconnect cycle?
>
> Thanks!
> Jorge
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