Re: nm-applet: "Auto Ethernet"



On 15.11.2016 19:21, Thomas Haller wrote:
On Tue, 2016-11-15 at 18:50 +0100, poma wrote:
On 15.11.2016 16:29, Thomas Haller wrote:

On Tue, 2016-11-15 at 10:35 +0100, poma wrote:

The applet offers "Auto Ethernet" despite that this feature is
explicitly disabled in the configuration.
A bug, or a feature?

Hi,


These two things are not the same.

Did you mean the correlation in terms of interaction?


 1) "default-wired-connection" is in the server, which is related
    to the configuration parameter "no-auto-default" in 
    NetworkManger.conf
 2) the UI field "Auto Ethernet" in nm-applet

They are not the same thing.

2) is not implemented in terms of 1).
1) is a server-only thing
2) is a nm-applet thing -- To realize this, nm-applet of course talks 
   to the server too. But large parts of the logic happen in nm-applet.


In the server, "auto default connections" are there so that you can
boot a machine without any connections and NetworkManager will
create a
(default) connection automatically.
"no-auto-default" in NetworkManager.conf disables this.

What exactly does mean -server- in "In the server"?

NetworkManager is a server/daemon to configure networking.
"in the server" means something that happens in the NetworkManager
process.
Sometimes things happen in the server as result of command from a
client via D-Bus.
Not in case of 1). No client interaction is involved there.



The "Auto Ethernet" in nm-applet, creates a new connection from
client
side, and activates it.

Did you mean, NetworkManager via the applet offers "Ad hoc" Ethernet
connection, and user can eventually consume it?

Clicking 2), cause
  - nm-applet to constuct a new connection (client-side)
  - send the new connection via D-Bus to NetworkManager (server-side)
  - server stores the new connection
  - server activates the new connection.


does that make any sense?
Thomas




Indeed, to articulate in a meaningful way through the technical language is not a trivial task, especially 
when it is not a subset of native language.

There is at least one case where this kind of connection should not be offered - existing bridged connection.



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