As part of the conscious language effort we must provide an alternative
option to configure autoconnect-ports system-wide on NetworkManager
configuration file.
Adds an option in the connectivity section to change the timeout before
the interface is deemed "limited". Previously, it was hardcoded to
20 seconds, but for our usecase (failing over to cell modem if
hardwired ethernet drops), it's nice to be able to failover to another
interface more quickly.
Commit 797f3cafee ('device: fall back to saved use_tempaddr value
instead of rereading /proc') changed the behaviour of how to get the
last resort default value for ip6-privacy property.
Previously we read it from /proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/default, buf after
this commit we started to read /proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/<iface> instead,
because the user might have set a different value specific for that device.
As NetworkManager changes that value on connection activation, we used
the value read at the time that NetworkManager was started.
Commit 6cb14ae6a6 ('device: introduce ipv6.temp-valid-lifetime and
ipv6.temp-preferred-lifetime properties') introduced 2 new IPv6 privacy
related properties relying on the same mechanism.
However, this new behaviour is problematic because it's not predictable
nor reliable:
- NetworkManager is normally started at boot time. That means that, if a
user wants to set a new value to /proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/<iface>,
NetworkManager is likely alread running, so the change won't take
effect.
- If NetworkManager is restarted it will read the value again, but this
value can be the one set by NetworkManager itself in the last
activation. This means that different values can be used as default in
the same system boot depending on the restarts of NetworkManager.
Moreover, this weird situation might happen:
- Connection A with ip6-privacy=2 is activated
- NetworkManager is stopped. The value in
/proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/<iface>/use_tempaddr remains as 2.
- NetworkManager starts. It reads from /proc/sys/... and saves the value
'2' as the default.
- Connection B with no ip6-privacy setting is activated. The '2' saved
as default value is used. The connection didn't specify any value for
it, and the value '2' was set by another connection for that specific
connection only, not manually by a user that wanted '2' to be the
default.
A user shouldn't have to think on when NetworkManager starts or restarts
to known in an easy and predictable way what the default value for
certain property is. It's totally counterintuitive.
Revert back to the old behaviour of reading from
/proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/default. Although this value is used by the
kernel only for newly created interfaces, and not for already existing
ones, it is reasonable to think on these settings as "systemwide
defaults" that the user has chosen.
Note that setting a different default in NetworkManager.conf still takes
precedence.
When IPv6 privacy extensions are enabled, by default temporary addresses
have a valid lifetime of 1 week and a preferred lifetime of 1 day.
That's far too long for privacy-conscious users, some of whom want a new
address once every few seconds. Add connection options that correspond
to /proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/*/temp_valid_lft and
/proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/*/temp_prefered_lft to allow configuring the
address rotation time on a per-connection basis.
The new properties are defined as 32-bit signed integers to match the
sysctl parameters which are also signed, although currently only
positive numbers are valid.
Introduce a new option to NMSettingIpConfig. The new option is ternary
type being the default value set to disabled. When enabled,
NetworkManager will instruct the DHCP client to send RELEASE message
when IP addresses are being removed.
The new option at NMSettingConnection allow the user to specify if the
connection needs to be down when powering off the system. This is useful
for IP address removal prior powering off. In order to accomplish that,
we listen on "Shutdown" systemd DBus signal.
The option is set to FALSE by default, it can be specified globally on
configuration file or per profile.
The default in systemd-resolved is nowadays "yes". In any case, since
the setting is configurable systemd-resolved, don't describe it in the
manual page.
Instead, clarify the behavior and try to improve the documentation.
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/-/issues/1467
This option was only introduced only to allow keeping the old behavior
in RHEL7, while the default order was changed from 'ifindex' to 'name'
in RHEL8. The usefulness of this option is questionable, as 'name'
together with predictable interface names should give predictable order.
When not using predictable interface names, the name is unpredictable
but so is the ifindex.
https://issues.redhat.com/browse/NMT-926https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/-/merge_requests/1814
README.md:
As this document is mainly for normal users, and in Gitlab it's
displayed by default, it's the main entry point to get information when
someone get into the repo, either via web or cloned.
Added explanations about how to install and use NM and how to find the
documentation for users. Added brief info about how to report issues
and ask for help, with links to CONTRIBUTING.md to get more details.
Added brief link for potential contributors to read CONTRIBUTING.md.
People not familiar with open source projects might not be aware of it.
Deleted the "moved to freedesktop" message. After 15 years, people might
know yet.
Added brief explanation about the free software license.
CONTRIBUTING.md:
Added a link to the list of all communication channels, only mailing
list and IRC were listed.
Added detailed explanation about how to report issues and attach logs.
It also references the new tool anonymize-logs.py.
Added brief guidelines about how to start contributing choosing issues
from the tracker.
Fixed some small formatting issues and added a reference to nm-in-vm,
fixing the link to nm-in-container too.
MAINTAINERS.md:
Added explanation about how to triage and properly label the issues.
This is basically based on the kind-of-workflow that we already have,
but maybe it's a good time to check that it's correct or to propose
small changes (so, please propose changes in review).
The default behavior is not to rename profiles. I guess, that makes
sense, as renaming a file when changing the "connection.id" could break
users who rely on the name.
My use case is the following. When I connect a Wi-Fi hotspot I use
`nmcli device wifi connect $SSID`, which -- as expected -- persists the
profile to "/etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/$SSID.nmconnection".
Later, I always update the profile's name to "w_$SSID" so I can see on
the name that this is wireless profile. I also want the filename to
reflect that change of name.
Add a configuration option for that. All the infrastructure
("force_rename" parameter) already exists.
Now the settings in the [global-dns] section are used *in addition* to
connection-specific ones. Only the global domains sections, when
valid, override connection settings. Update the man page to clarify
that.
Fixes: 1f0d1d78d2 ('dns-manager: always apply options from [global-dns]')
Support managing the loopback interface through NM as the users want to
set the proper mtu for loopback interface when forwarding the packets.
Additionally, the IP addresses, DNS, route and routing rules are also
allowed to configure for the loopback connection profiles.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2060905
1) The "enabled-on-global-iface" flag was odd. Instead, have only
and "enabled" flag and skip (by default) endpoints on interface
that have no default route. With the new flag "also-without-default-route",
this can be overruled. So previous "enabled-on-global-default" now is
the same as "enabled", and "enabled" from before behaves now like
"enabled,also-without-default-route".
2) What was also odd, as that the fallback default value for the flags
depends on "/proc/sys/net/mptcp/enabled". There was not one fixed
fallback default, instead the used fallback value was either
"enabled-on-global-iface,subflow" or "disabled".
Usually that is not a problem (e.g. the default value for
"ipv6.ip6-privacy" also depends on use_tempaddr sysctl). In this case
it is a problem, because the mptcp-flags (for better or worse) encode
different things at the same time.
Consider that the mptcp-flags can also have their default configured in
"NetworkManager.conf", a user who wants to switch the address flags
could previously do:
[connection.mptcp]
connection.mptcp-flags=0x32 # enabled-on-global-iface,signal,subflow
but then the global toggle "/proc/sys/net/mptcp/enabled" was no longer
honored. That means, MPTCP handling was always on, even if the sysctl was
disabled. Now, "enabled" means that it's only enabled if the sysctl
is enabled too. Now the user could write to "NetworkManager.conf"
[connection.mptcp]
connection.mptcp-flags=0x32 # enabled,signal,subflow
and MPTCP handling would still be disabled unless the sysctl
is enabled.
There is now also a new flag "also-without-sysctl", so if you want
to really enable MPTCP handling regardless of the sysctl, you can.
The point of that might be, that we still can configure endpoints,
even if kernel won't do anything with them. Then you could just flip
the sysctl, and it would start working (as NetworkManager configured
the endpoints already).
Fixes: eb083eece5 ('all: add NMMptcpFlags and connection.mptcp-flags property')
(cherry picked from commit c00873e08f)
When NetworkManager runs in initrd, it can be cumbersome to enable debug logging.
Granted, when using dracut, the NetworkManager dracut module will honor "rd.debug".
However, a user may use NetworkManager in initrd without dracut. Then,
the only way to enable debug logging would be by changing
"NetworkManager.conf" and rebuild the initrd (or having some script in
place, that allows to more conveniently enable debug logging for
NetworkManager).
To make it easier for debugging, honor "nm.debug" on the kernel command
line.
Note that if "nm.debug" is set on the kernel command line, it always overrides
both the command line arguments and the configuration from NetworkManager.conf.
That is intentional. The only way to override that is by overriding the
kernel command line with a file "/run/NetworkManager/proc-cmdline".
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2102313
It can be useful to choose a different "ipv6.addr-gen-mode". And it can be
useful to override the default for a set of profiles.
For example, in cloud or in a data center, stable-privacy might not be
the best choice. Add a mechanism to override the default via global defaults
in NetworkManager.conf:
# /etc/NetworkManager/conf.d/90-ipv6-addr-gen-mode-override.conf
[connection-90-ipv6-addr-gen-mode-override]
match-device=type:ethernet
ipv6.addr-gen-mode=0
"ipv6.addr-gen-mode" is a special property, because its default depends on
the component that configures the profile.
- when read from disk (keyfile and ifcfg-rh), a missing addr-gen-mode
key means to default to "eui64".
- when configured via D-Bus, a missing addr-gen-mode property means to
default to "stable-privacy".
- libnm's ip6-config::addr-gen-mode property defaults to
"stable-privacy".
- when some tool creates a profile, they either can explicitly
set the mode, or they get the default of the underlying mechanisms
above.
- nm-initrd-generator explicitly sets "eui64" for profiles it creates.
- nmcli doesn' explicitly set it, but inherits the default form
libnm's ip6-config::addr-gen-mode.
- when NM creates a auto-default-connection for ethernet ("Wired connection 1"),
it inherits the default from libnm's ip6-config::addr-gen-mode.
Global connection defaults only take effect when the per-profile
value is set to a special default/unset value. To account for the
different cases above, we add two such special values: "default" and
"default-or-eui64". That's something we didn't do before, but it seams
useful and easy to understand.
Also, this neatly expresses the current behaviors we already have. E.g.
if you don't specify the "addr-gen-mode" in a keyfile, "default-or-eui64"
is a pretty clear thing.
Note that usually we cannot change default values, in particular not for
libnm's properties. That is because we don't serialize the default
values to D-Bus/keyfile, so if we change the default, we change
behavior. Here we change from "stable-privacy" to "default" and
from "eui64" to "default-or-eui64". That means, the user only experiences
a change in behavior, if they have a ".conf" file that overrides the default.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1743161https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2082682
See-also: https://github.com/coreos/fedora-coreos-tracker/issues/907https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/-/merge_requests/1213
Introduction of a new setting ipv4.link-local, which enables
link-local IP addresses concurrently with other IP address assignment
implementations such as dhcp or manually.
No way is implemented to obtain a link-local address as a fallback when
dhcp does not respond (as dhcpd does, for example). This could be be
added later.
To maintain backward compatibility with ipv4.method ipv4.link-local has
lower priority than ipv4.method. This results in:
* method=link-local overrules link-local=disabled
* method=disabled overrules link-local=enabled
Furthermore, link-local=auto means that method defines whether
link-local is enabled or disabled:
* method=link-local --> link-local=enabled
* else --> link-local=disabled
The upside is, that this implementation requires no normalization.
Normalization is confusing to implement, because to get it really
right, we probably should support normalizing link-local based on
method, but also vice versa. And since the method affects how other
properties validate/normalize, it's hard to normalize that one, so that
the result makes sense. Normalization is also often not great to the
user, because it basically means to modify the profile based on other
settings.
The downside is that the auto flag becomes API and exists because
we need backward compatibility with ipv4.method.
We would never add this flag, if we would redesign "ipv4.method"
(by replacing by per-method-specific settings).
Defining a default setting for ipv4.link-local in the global
configuration is also supported.
The default setting for the new property can be "default", since old
users upgrading to a new version that supports ipv4.link-local will not
have configured the global default in NetworkManager.conf. Therefore,
they will always use the expected "auto" default unless they change
their configuration.
Co-Authored-By: Thomas Haller <thaller@redhat.com>
The "unbound" DNS plugin was very rudimentary and is deprecated since
commit 4a2fe09853 ('man: mark [main].dns=unbound as deprecated') (Jun
2021).
It is part of dnssec-trigger tool, but the dnssec-trigger tool doesn't
actually use it. Instead it installs a dispatcher script
"/usr/lib/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d/01-dnssec-trigger".
Especially, since the plugin requires "/usr/libexec/dnssec-trigger-script",
which is provided by "dnssec-trigger" package on Fedora. At the same
time, the package provides the dispatcher script. So I don't this works
or anybody is using this.
https://mail.gnome.org/archives/networkmanager-list/2022-April/msg00002.html
People keep reporting bugs with `level=DEBUG` or set to a certain
domains. That is generally not useful. Complete debug logs should be
collected, we can always ignore what we don't care about, but we might
miss important information by limiting what we collect.
Try to make that clearer in the manual.
Configuration can have [device*] and [connection*] settings and both
can include a 'match-device=' key, which is a list of device-specs.
Introduce a new 'allowed-connections' key for [device*] sections,
which specifies a list of connection-specs to indicate which
connections can be activated on the device.
With this, it becomes possible to have a device configuration like:
[device-enp1s0]
match-device=interface-name:enp1s0
allowed-connections=except:origin:nm-initrd-generator
so that NM in the real root ignores connections created by the
nm-initrd-generator, and starts activating a persistent
connection. This requires also setting 'keep-configuration=no' to not
generate an assumed connection.
Add function nm_utils_connection_match_spec_list() to check whether a
connection matches a spec list. Also document the supported syntax in
the man page.
Add a new 'keep-configuration' device option, set to 'yes' by
default. When set to 'no', on startup NetworkManager ignores that the
interface is pre-configured and doesn't try to keep its
configuration. Instead, it activates one of the persistent
connections.
Since the [main].iwd-config-path functionality, where NM watches for
NMSettingsConnection changes and update IWD network config files with
new settings, has proven to work without issues so far, enable it by
default. Instead of hardcoding /var/lib/iwd as the value, and since the
value can't be probed at NM compile time, query it from IWD's recently-
added D-Bus interface for settings when [main].iwd-config-path is either
missing or set to the new value "auto".
