From 9a019f1fb5b7d99a7d4ec7af89212402ea81793a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Ji=C5=99=C3=AD=20Klime=C5=A1?= Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2013 13:35:50 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] device: bind the generated loopback connection to 'lo' interface It is useful to bind the loopack connection to the loopback interface, and it also allows activating it. $ nmcli con up lo Else "Error: no device found for connection 'lo'" is returned, because connection_compatible() in libnm-glib/nm-device-generic.c wants the connection to have an interface-name set. --- src/devices/nm-device.c | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/src/devices/nm-device.c b/src/devices/nm-device.c index 1a0bcdca09..7b939ac508 100644 --- a/src/devices/nm-device.c +++ b/src/devices/nm-device.c @@ -1681,6 +1681,12 @@ nm_device_generate_connection (NMDevice *device) g_object_set (s_con, NM_SETTING_CONNECTION_TYPE, klass->connection_type, NULL); nm_connection_add_setting (connection, s_con); + /* Bind loopback connection to 'lo' device */ + if (nm_platform_link_get_type (ifindex) == NM_LINK_TYPE_LOOPBACK) + g_object_set (s_con, + NM_SETTING_CONNECTION_INTERFACE_NAME, ifname, + NULL); + /* If the device is a slave, update various slave settings */ if (ifindex) master_ifindex = nm_platform_link_get_master (ifindex);