It is safer to enable send-sci by default because, at the cost of
8-byte overhead, it makes MACsec work over bridges (note that kernel
also enables it by default). While at it, also make the option
configurable.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1588041
allow to specify the DUID to be used int the DHCPv6 client identifier
option: the dhcp-duid property accepts either a hex string or the
special values "lease", "llt", "ll", "stable-llt", "stable-ll" and
"stable-uuid".
"lease": give priority to the DUID available in the lease file if any,
otherwise fallback to a global default dependant on the dhcp
client used. This is the default and reflects how the DUID
was managed previously.
"ll": enforce generation and use of LL type DUID based on the current
hardware address.
"llt": enforce generation and use of LLT type DUID based on the current
hardware address and a stable time field.
"stable-ll": enforce generation and use of LL type DUID based on a
link layer address derived from the stable id.
"stable-llt": enforce generation and use of LLT type DUID based on
a link layer address and a timestamp both derived from the
stable id.
"stable-uuid": enforce generation and use of a UUID type DUID based on a
uuid generated from the stable id.
The D-Bus interface already has a boolean property "Unsaved".
While that is nicer too look at (in the API), adding a new flag
is very cumbersome, and also has more overhead. For example,
it requires extending the D-Bus API, all the way down to libnm.
Add a flags argument, that will allow to add future boolean
flags easier.
The libnm API fir checkpoints was only introduced with 1.11. It
is not yet stable, so there is still time to adjust it. Note that
this changes API/ABI of the development branch.
Changes:
- we only add async variants of the checkpoint functions. I believe
that synchronous D-Bus methods are fundamentally flawed, because
they mess up the ordering of events.
Rename the async functions by removing the "_async" suffix. This
matches glib style, for which the async form is also not specially
marked.
- for function that refere to a particular checkpoint (rollback and
destroy), accept the D-Bus path as string, instead of an NMCheckpoint
instance. This form is more flexible, because it allows to use
the function without having a NMCheckpoint instance at hand. On the
other hand, if one has a NMCheckpoint instance, he can trivially
obtain the path to make the call.
This allows to adjust the timeout of an existing checkpoint.
The main usecase of checkpoints, is to have a fail-safe when
configuring the network remotely. By allowing to reset the timeout,
the user can perform a series of actions, and keep bumping the
timeout. That way, the entire series is still guarded by the same
checkpoint, but the user can start with short timeout, and
re-adjust the timeout as he goes along.
The libnm API only implements the async form (at least for now).
Sync methods are fundamentally wrong with D-Bus, and it's probably
not needed. Also, follow glib convenction, where the async form
doesn't have the _async name suffix. Also, accept a D-Bus path
as argument, not a NMCheckpoint instance. The libnm API should
not be more restricted than the underlying D-Bus API. It would
be cumbersome to require the user to lookup the NMCheckpoint
instance first, especially since libnm doesn't provide an efficient
or convenient lookup-by-path method. On the other hand, retrieving
the path from a NMCheckpoint instance is always possible.
Note that this changes API for checkpoint_create_async() in Python
via GIR. Previously it would require an integer argument, now a flags
argument. But this API is still unstable, it will be introduced with
1.12.
Otherwise, the only way to disconnect the NMVpnServicePlugin
instance is by completely unrefing it. However, often it is
not so easy to ensure that nobody else is still keeping the
instance alive, after the point where we no longer want to
handle D-Bus requests. nm_vpn_service_plugin_shutdown() to the
rescue.
The team API was backported to nm-1-10 branch.
It will be released both as 1.12.0 and 1.10.2.
To ensure the upgrade path from 1.10.2+ to 1.12+ works, the symbols
in libnm must be present on both versions.
Usually, we would duplicate the symbols on master via
NM_BACKPORT_SYMBOL() macro.
However, as we are sure that we will release 1.10.2 before 1.12.0,
we can just update the linker version of these symbols. So, although
the symbols will be first released on major release 1.12.0, their linker
version tag is libnm_1_10_2, to ease upgrade and to avoid duplicating the
symbols.
Team allows to specify multiple link watchers for each link.
Define a link watcher object in order to allow to specify multiple ones
for each Team configuration.
The update2 API was backported to nm-1-10 branch, with commit
ad7f1d18a0. It will be released
both as 1.12.0 and 1.10.2.
To ensure the upgrade path from 1.10.2+ to 1.12+ works, the symbols
in libnm must be present on both versions.
Usually, we would duplicate the symbols on master via
NM_BACKPORT_SYMBOL() macro.
However, as we are sure that we will release 1.10.2 before 1.12.0,
we can just update the linker version of these symbols. So, although
they are first released on major release 1.12.0, their linker version
tag is libnm_1_10_2, to ease upgrade and to avoid duplicating the
symbol.
- only add an async version. I think sync requests are fundamentally flawed
because they mess up the order of D-Bus messages. Hence, also don't
call the function *_async(), like we do for other functions. As there
is only the async form, it doesn't have a suffix.
- Don't accept a NMConnection as @settings argument, but a GVariant.
In general, keep the libnm API closer to the D-Bus API and don't hide
the underlying function with a less powerful form. The user still can
conveniently call the function with
nm_remote_connection_update2 (connection,
nm_connection_to_dbus (NM_CONNECTION (connection),
NM_CONNECTION_SERIALIZE_ALL),
save_to_disk
? NM_SETTINGS_UPDATE2_FLAG_TO_DISK
: NM_SETTINGS_UPDATE2_FLAG_IN_MEMORY,
NULL,
cancellable,
callback,
user_data);
I believe the parts of libnm that invoke D-Bus methods, should be
close to the D-Bus API. Not like nm_remote_connection_commit_changes()
which has no corresponding D-Bus method.
We already have Update(), UpdateUnsaved() and Save(), which serve
similar purposes. We will need a form of update with another argument.
Most notably, to block autoconnect while doing the update.
Other use cases could be to prevent reapplying connection.zone and
connection.metered, to to reapply all changes.
Instead of adding a specific update function that only serves that
new use-case, add a extensible Update2() function. It can be extended
to cope with future variants of update.
It's rather limiting that the only API to access *all* keys
is nm_setting_vpn_foreach_data_item() and nm_setting_vpn_foreach_secret().
API like nm_setting_vpn_get_num_secrets() is not useful, at least as
long as you cannot access the item by index.
The number of authentication retires is useful also for passwords aside
802-1x settings. For example, src/devices/wifi/nm-device-wifi.c also has
a retry counter and uses a hard-coded value of 3.
Move the setting, so that it can be used in general. Although it is still
not implemented for other settings.
This is an API and ABI break.
There is no API to get all settings. You can only ask for
settings explicitly, but that requires you to probe for them
and know which ones may exist.
The alternative API might be nm_connection_for_each_setting_value(),
but that only iterates over settings' properties. If a setting has no
properties, it is ignored.
