Re: New connection appears after unplugging Ethernet

[Martin <debacle debian org>]

On 2022-04-26 10:27, Thomas Haller wrote:
> the profile with the same name as the device, is usually generated by
> NetworkManager in response to an external configuration. You'd see
> "connected (externally)" in `nmcli device`.

This is the case, indeed. I was not aware of that flag, thank you!

> That usually means that some other program is configuring the device.
> Or it would be a bug... to investigate, check the `level=TRACE` log.

I can see, that an NM connection is created as "nm-generated, volatile,
external". Now I only have to find out, which program is the culprit.
So far, I have no idea.

At least, it does not seem to be a NM bug!