On Mon, 2020-07-20 at 16:00 +0200, Pierre Saminadin wrote:
Hi all i can't find this information in documentation, maybe i don't know exactly where to search I want to know where network manager persistently store the "default connection profile" information. My distribution is CentOS 8 Example : - for the same device (enp0s3) - i have two connection profiles : - enp0s3-static and - enp0s3-dhcp these connection exist on my disk as two files - directory : /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts - file 1 : ifcfg-enp0s3-static - file 2 : ifcfg-enp0s3-dynamic i can't see any difference between these two file that can explain why one file is selected at boot and not the other can you explain me please ?
Hi, you are talking about NetworkManager automatically activating one of the profiles. See "connection.autoconnect" in `nmcli connection show `$PROFILE"`. When NetworkManager is in a situation where a device could autoconnect, then it will try to find a suitable profile. For example, if the device is not marked as unmanaged, a cable is plugged in or if the Wi-Fi scan list gets updated, these the device could be ready to autoconnect. A profile is suitable if it has autoconnect enabled, and if it matches the device and the circumstances (e.g. for Wi-Fi the wifi.ssid is visible in the scan list). If there are multiple candidate profiles, NetworkManager chooses the one with the better "connection.autoconnect-priority". If there are still multiple, it chooses the one that connected last -- according to "connection.timestamp". The timestamps are stored in /var/lib/NetworkManager/timestamps. If more than one candidate profile have the same (or no) timestamp, then the choice is arbitrary. But successfully activating a profile will update the timestamp, so the next time it won't be arbitrary anymore. best, Thomas
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