nmcli connection down

[Thomas HUMMEL <thomas hummel pasteur fr>]

Hello,

nmcli(1) states about the connection down command :

"Be aware that this command deactivates the specified active connection, 
but the device on which the connection was active, is still ready to 
connect and will perform auto-activation by looking for a suitable 
connection that has the 'autoconnect' flag set. This includes the just 
deactivated connection. So if the connection is set to auto-connect, it 
will be automatically started on the disconnected device again."

In the following simple test :

# ls -l /var/lib/NetworkManager/no-auto-default.state
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Nov  8 16:25 
/var/lib/NetworkManager/no-auto-default.state

# nmcli connection delete foobar
Connection 'foobar' (eedc4b58-5a81-45e9-9cac-586f9f25f61d) successfully 
deleted.

# nmcli connection add type ethernet con-name foobar ifname eth1
Connection 'foobar' (1c34b34b-f3ab-4d7d-8a19-3fdf618a16f3) successfully 
added.

# nmcli -f connection.autoconnect connection show foobar
connection.autoconnect:                 yes

# nmcli -f GENERAL.AUTOCONNECT device show eth1
GENERAL.AUTOCONNECT:                    yes

# nmcli connection down foobar
Connection 'foobar' successfully deactivated (D-Bus active path: 
/org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/ActiveConnection/2)

# nmcli connection show
NAME    UUID                                  TYPE      DEVICE
foobar  1c34b34b-f3ab-4d7d-8a19-3fdf618a16f3  ethernet  --

# ip address show dev eth1
3: eth1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state UP 
group default qlen 1000
    link/ether 00:50:56:8a:42:bf brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff


it seems to me I'd qualified to the "This includes the just deactivated 
connection." case ? So why doesn't the device auto-reconnects ?

Thanks

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Thomas HUMMEL