Re: NetworkManager behavior answers not found in docs

[Thomas HUMMEL <thomas hummel pasteur fr>]

Thanks again.

Your info are precious ! Some of them should make their way into the 
official doc to me.

Again, a lot to digest but it's getting pretty clear.

> > > Usually, NetworkManager (the daemon) does not automatically create
> > > connection profiles
> >
> >
> > But when it does (as in your cases), is it always only in RAM (unless
> > we
> > then save the profile to disk of course) ?
>
> Yes. But when you modify this profile, it usually gets persisted to
> disk.

I see in my tests that a profile modification is persisted even before 
the call to nmcli device reapply : am I right ?
What's the link between persistence, modification and reapplication of a 
profile ?


> Maybe NM created such an "auto-default" (named "Wired Connection #"),
> but then you deleted it? It wouldn't create it again, see file
> /var/lib/NetworkManager/no-auto-default.state.

The MAC is indeed in there although I don't remember deleting an auto 
created profile

Thanks again!

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Thomas HUMMEL