Re: Ignore virtual interfaces of WiFi devices

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Mon, 2015-05-25 at 19:39 +0000, Patrick Brauer wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I tried to get NetworkManager to ignore a virtual interface i want
> to use for a mesh network. I want to have NetworkManager
> working on some devices in parallel to the mesh networking setup.
> So i tried to list the device name and/or MAC address in
> /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf like this:
>
> [main]
> plugins=keyfile
> [keyfile]
> unmanaged-devices=mac:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX;interface-name:mesh0
>
> However, this did not work. When i used the MAC address of the mesh0
> interface NetworkManager did not care about this setting. When i used
> the MAC address of the original device controlled by NetworkManager
> before, it ignores both interfaces. Is it somehow possible to ignore
> the virtual interface alone? I could guess NetworkManager does this
> because it would not know the state of the physical interface at any
> time, but i would like to have to deal with that problems by myself.

Which version of NetworkManager is this with?  Also, are you restarting
NM after modifying the config file?

Dan