On Wed, 2018-10-24 at 19:58 +0200, Thomas HUMMEL wrote:
On 10/24/2018 06:22 PM, Thomas Haller wrote:Let's call this "externally managed". Not sure that's helpful, but in NetworkManager source code it's called like that. In nmcli output, you cannot really distinguish a regular activated profile from such an externally managed one. Except, that in the latter case the profiles was autocreated and its name is the device name (eth1).Understood. Now if I edit this connection matching an externally managed device (for instance using nmcli connection edit), would that turn it into a normally managed one ?
Hi, Optimally yes. the profile for the externally managed device is at first in a way, that when the device disconnects (for example, because you remove the IP address again), that it gets automatically removed again. If you modify the profile, then the generated profile will no longer be automatically removed when the device disconnects later. It will continue to exist until you delete it (or until NetworkManager restarts, in case of `nmcli connection modify --temporary`). If you interact with such an externally managed device, then NM is supposed to fully take over... that in particular is the case with - nmcli device disconnect ... - nmcli device connect ... - nmcli connection up $ANY_PROFILE # on the device in question - nmcli connection down $THE_GENERATED_PROFILE - nmcli connection delete $THE_GENERATED_PROFILE where NM disconnects the device (and possibly fully activates a profile afterwards). optimally, the following would fully take over the device too, however in a graceful manner that does not affect your connectivity: - nmcli device reapply $DEVICE - nmcli connection modify $THE_GENERATED_PROFILE - nmcli device set "$DEVICE" managed yes after such an operation, the device should no longer be externally managed. But likely there are issues with this. They should be fixed, but to be safe, you should just fully re-connect the device with one of the above. also, optimally - nmcli device set $DEV managed no marks the device directly as unmanaged (including removing the generated profile), without interfering with the external configuration at all. There might be issues with this as well (meaning: it might touch the device and destroy some external configuration). best, Thomas
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