Re: nm-applet: "Auto Ethernet"

[poma <pomidorabelisima gmail com>]

On 15.11.2016 16:29, Thomas Haller wrote:
> On Tue, 2016-11-15 at 10:35 +0100, poma wrote:
> > The applet offers "Auto Ethernet" despite that this feature is
> > explicitly disabled in the configuration.
> > A bug, or a feature?
>
> Hi,
>
>
> These two things are not the same.

Did you mean the correlation in terms of interaction?

> In the server, "auto default connections" are there so that you can
> boot a machine without any connections and NetworkManager will create a
> (default) connection automatically.
> "no-auto-default" in NetworkManager.conf disables this.

What exactly does mean -server- in "In the server"?

> The "Auto Ethernet" in nm-applet, creates a new connection from client
> side, and activates it.

Did you mean, NetworkManager via the applet offers "Ad hoc" Ethernet connection, and user can eventually 
consume it?