The 'number' property in GSM settings is a legacy thing that comes
from when ModemManager used user-provided numbers, if any, to connect
3GPP modems.
Since ModemManager 1.0, this property is completely unused for 3GPP
modems, and so it doesn't make sense to use it in the NetworkManager
settings. Ofono does not use it either.
For AT+PPP-based 3GPP modems, the 'number' to call to establish the
data connection is decided by ModemManager itself, e.g. for standard
GSM/UMTS/LTE modems it will connect a given predefined PDP context,
and for other modems like Iridium it will have the number to call
hardcoded in the plugin itself.
https://github.com/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/pull/261
Describe how to specify multiple VFs and which attributes are
supported, so that this information is available in the nm-settings
manual page.
Also, clarify that SR-IOV parameters are managed only when the setting
is present.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1651979
Add support for the teaming arp_ping link watcher 'vlanid' property.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Talbert <ptalbert@redhat.com>
[thaller@redhat.com: minor fixes to original patch]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1652931
VALUES_STATIC() was a macro to initialize the values_static pointer with
a (static) strv array.
For one, it lacked a "const" in "(const char *[])", which means
the data is not put in a read only section by the linker. That should
be fixed.
Anyway, we already have a macro for creating such constant strv arrays:
NM_MAKE_STRV().
I think it is good to the concept of "initializing values_static" a
name (VALUES_STATIC()). But it also hides (for better or worse), that
this is a strv array. Let's use NM_MAKE_STRV() instead. By looking at
the code, it's still clear that this initializes the "values_static"
array, but it also makes it clear that this is a plain strv array.
Add a new mode for the DHCPv4 client identifier.
"duid" is what the internal (systemd) DHCP client already does by
default. It is also the same as used by systemd-networkd's
"ClientIdentifier=duid" setting. What we still lack (compared to
networkd) are a way to overwrite IAID and the DUID.
Previously, this mode was used by the internal DHCP plugin
by default. However, it could not be explicitly configured.
In general, our default values should also be explicitly selectable.
Now the "duid" client identifier can also be used with the "dhclient"
plugin.
We already had "${DEVICE}" which uses the interface name.
In times of predictable interface naming, that works well.
It allows the user to generate IDs per device which don't
change when the hardware is replaced.
"${MAC}" is similar, except that is uses the permanent MAC
address of the device. The substitution results in the empty
word, if the device has no permanent MAC address (like software
devices).
The per-device substitutions "${DEVICE}" and "${MAC}" are especially
interesting with "connection.multi-connect=multiple".
The client-id is something that we want to determine top-down.
Meaning, if the user specifies it via ipv4.dhcp-client-id, then it
should be used. If the user leaves it unspecified, we choose a
default stable client-id. For the internal DHCP plugin, this is
a node specific client-id based on
- the predictable interface name
- and /etc/machine-id
It's not clear, why we should allow specifying the client-id in
the lease file as a third source of configuration. It really pushes
the configuration first down (when we do DHCP without lease file),
to store an additional bit of configuration for future DHCP attempts.
If the machine-id or the interface-name changes, then so does the
default client-id. In this case, also "ipv4.dhcp-client-id=stable"
changes. It's fair to require that the user keeps the machine-id
stable, if the machine identity doesn't change.
Also, the lease files are stored in /var/lib/NetworkManager, which
is more volatile than /etc/machine-id. So, if we think that machine-id
and interface-name is not stable, why would we assume that we have
a suitable lease file?
Also, if you do:
nmcli connection add con-name "$PROFILE" ... ipv4.dhcp-client-id ''
nmcli connection up $PROFILE
nmcli connection modify "$PROFILE" ipv4.dhcp-client-id mac
nmcli connection up $PROFILE
nmcli connection modify "$PROFILE" ipv4.dhcp-client-id ''
nmcli connection up $PROFILE
wouldn't you expect that the original (default) client-id is used again?
Also, this works badly with global connection defaults in
NetworkManager.conf. If you configure a connection default, previously
already this would always force the client-id and overrule the lease.
That is reasonable, but in which case would you ever want to use
the client-id from the lease?
This makes it possible to utilize agents in the "external UI" mode
instead of hardcoded handling of VPN secrets requests.
Ideally this would be turned into a library so that nm-applet can share
the code, but figuring out the right API might be a non-trivial
undertaking.
The meta data type descriptor must set .get_gtype only for
GObject properties which are of type int or uint. That is, when
the enum type cannot be automatically detected.
However, NM_SETTING_SERIAL_PARITY is a g_param_spec_enum()
of type NM_TYPE_SETTING_SERIAL_PARITY, so setting the get_gtype()
hook is wrong and leads to a crash
$ /bin/nmcli connection add type gsm autoconnect no con-name t ifname '*' apn xyz serial.parity 5
(process:11086): libnmc-CRITICAL **: 15:04:35.180: file clients/common/nm-meta-setting-desc.c: line 1283 (_set_fcn_gobject_enum): should not be reached
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
That is because the enum property setter does:
»···if ( has_gtype
»··· && NM_IN_SET (gtype_prop,
»··· G_TYPE_INT,
»··· G_TYPE_UINT)
»··· && G_TYPE_IS_CLASSED (gtype)
»··· && (gtype_class = g_type_class_ref (gtype))
»··· && ( (is_flags = G_IS_FLAGS_CLASS (gtype_class))
»··· || G_IS_ENUM_CLASS (gtype_class))) {
»···»···/* valid */
meaning, it only allows "has_gtype" if the native "gtype_prop" is
G_TYPE_INT or G_TYPE_UINT.
Fixes: 9a68123827
libnm currently has only one GObject property of type uint64:
"serial.send-delay". However, it's broken because uint64 handling
is not implemented.
$ nmcli connection add type gsm autoconnect no con-name t ifname '*' apn 'xyz' serial.baud 5
Connection 't' (4c929f17-9fda-41d6-8f90-897f6d46b078) successfully added.
$ nmcli connection show t
...
ipv6.dhcp-duid: --
ipv6.dhcp-send-hostname: yes
ipv6.dhcp-hostname: --
ipv6.token: --
(process:14016): libnmc-CRITICAL **: 14:08:32.591: file clients/common/nm-meta-setting-desc.c: line 811 (_get_fcn_gobject_int): should not be reached
serial.baud: 5
serial.bits: 8
serial.parity: none
serial.stopbits: 1
serial.send-delay: --
gsm.number: *99#
...
$ nmcli connection add type gsm autoconnect no con-name t ifname '*' apn 'xyz' serial.baud 5 serial.send-delay 100
(process:14852): libnmc-CRITICAL **: 14:12:24.259: file clients/common/nm-meta-setting-desc.c: line 1131 (_set_fcn_gobject_int): should not be reached
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
Fixes: b6d9bdcee8
The new hash table should destroy elements stolen from the hash table
returned by nm_utils_parse_variant_attributes().
Fixes: d094914120
(cherry picked from commit 31bda1b837)
After an update of the connection.mdns property, a reactivation is
needed to apply the new value.
Also, the ifcfg-rh variable name was wrong.
Fixes: 2e2ff6f27a
Before, we would not autocomplete connection types that have an alias:
Connection type: <TAB><TAB>
6lowpan cdma macvlan vlan
802-11-olpc-mesh dummy olpc-mesh vpn
802-11-wireless ethernet ovs-bridge vxlan
802-3-ethernet generic ovs-interface wifi
adsl gsm ovs-port wimax
bluetooth infiniband pppoe wpan
bond ip-tunnel team
bridge macsec tun
Connection type: 8<TAB> [-> no completion]
Don't treat the default connection type (for example,
"802-3-ethernet") in a special way and allow it to be autocompleted,
because we already display it when the user did not enter any text.
Add a new 'match' setting containing properties to match a connection
to devices. At the moment only the interface-name property is present
and, contrary to connection.interface-name, it allows the use of
wildcards.
As of upstream kernel v4.18-rc8.
Note that we name the features like they are called in ethtool's
ioctl API ETH_SS_FEATURES.
Except, for features like "tx-gro", which ethtool utility aliases
as "gro". So, for those features where ethtool has a built-in,
alternative name, we prefer the alias.
And again, note that a few aliases of ethtool utility ("sg", "tso", "tx")
actually affect more than one underlying kernel feature.
Note that 3 kernel features which are announced via ETH_SS_FEATURES are
explicitly exluded because kernel marks them as "never_changed":
#define NETIF_F_NEVER_CHANGE (NETIF_F_VLAN_CHALLENGED | \
NETIF_F_LLTX | NETIF_F_NETNS_LOCAL)
We will add a large number of offload features. That means, the output
of `nmcli connection show "$PROFILE"` would be very verbose, in case
the profile has a [ethtool] option.
Since this is newly added API, don't do that. Don't show ethtool properties
that are left unset.
A minor problem here is, that it becomes no longer obvious which
properties exist. We should however counter that by documentation.
Also, one could do:
$ nmcli connection modify "$PROFILE" ethtool.xxx x
Error: invalid property 'xxx': 'xxx' not among [feature-gro, feature-gso, feature-lro, feature-ntuple, feature-rx, feature-rxhash, feature-rxvlan, feature-sg, feature-tso, feature-tx, feature-txvlan, feature-tx-tcp6-segmentation, feature-tx-tcp-segmentation].
Likewise, bash completion still works as one would expect.
$ nmcli --complete-args connection modify "$PROFILE" ethtool.
ethtool.feature-gro
ethtool.feature-gso
ethtool.feature-lro
[...]
Note the output of
$ nmcli -f ethtool.feature-gro connection show "$PROFILE"
gives now nothing (if there is an ethtool section, but not this
particular feature). Maybe this shouldn't be like that. On the other
hand, specifying a connection setting that doesn't exist also gives
no output:
$ nmcli -f bond connection show "$PROFILE"
So, maybe this behavior is fine.
Historically, nmcli printed all fields during operations like
`nmcli connection show "$PROFILE"`. As we supported more and
more options, this resulted in a verbose output, of most properties
just being the default values.
To counter that, we added the '-overview' option. When given,
it would hide options that are set at their default. This option
was not the default, to preserve established behavior.
However, for new options, we can afford to hide them. Add a mechanism,
that property getters can mark their value to be hidden. At the moment,
there is no way to show these properties. However, we could add a
'-verbose' option, with the opposite meaning of '-overview'. Anyway,
that does not seem necessary at the moment.
Hiding properties from output is only acceptable for new properties
(otherwise we badly change behavior), and if the properties are set
at their default values (otherwise, we hide important information).
Also, add two more features "tx-tcp-segmentation" and
"tx-tcp6-segmentation". There are two reasons for that:
- systemd-networkd supports setting these two features,
so lets support them too (apparently they are important
enough for networkd).
- these two features are already implicitly covered by "tso".
Like for the "ethtool" program, "tso" is an alias for several
actual features. By adding two features that are already
also covered by an alias (which sets multiple kernel names
at once), we showcase how aliases for the same feature can
coexist. In particular, note how setting
"tso on tx-tcp6-segmentation off" will behave as one would
expect: all 4 tso features covered by the alias are enabled,
except that particular one.
Note that in NetworkManager API (D-Bus, libnm, and nmcli),
the features are called "feature-xyz". The "feature-" prefix
is used, because NMSettingEthtool possibly will gain support
for options that are not only -K|--offload|--features, for
example -C|--coalesce.
The "xzy" suffix is either how ethtool utility calls the feature
("tso", "rx"). Or, if ethtool utility specifies no alias for that
feature, it's the name from kernel's ETH_SS_FEATURES ("tx-tcp6-segmentation").
If possible, we prefer ethtool utility's naming.
Also note, how the features "feature-sg", "feature-tso", and
"feature-tx" actually refer to multiple underlying kernel features
at once. This too follows what ethtool utility does.
The functionality is not yet implemented server-side.
Previously, each (non abstract) NMSetting class had to register
its name and priority via _nm_register_setting().
Note, that libnm-core.la already links against "nm-meta-setting.c",
which also redundantly keeps track of the settings name and gtype
as well.
Re-use NMMetaSettingInfo also in libnm-core.la, to track this meta
data.
The goal is to get rid of private data structures that track
meta data about NMSetting classes. In this case, "registered_settings"
hash. Instead, we should have one place where all this meta data
is tracked. This was, it is also accessible as internal API,
which can be useful (for keyfile).
Note that NMSettingClass has some overlap with NMMetaSettingInfo.
One difference is, that NMMetaSettingInfo is const, while NMSettingClass
is only initialized during the class_init() method. Appart from that,
it's mostly a matter of taste, whether we attach meta data to
NMSettingClass, to NMMetaSettingInfo, or to a static-array indexed
by NMMetaSettingType.
Note, that previously, _nm_register_setting() was private API. That
means, no user could subclass a functioning NMSetting instance. The same
is still true: NMMetaSettingInfo is internal API and users cannot access
it to create their own NMSetting subclasses. But that is almost desired.
libnm is not designed, to be extensible via subclassing, nor is it
clear why that would be a useful thing to do. One day, we should remove
the NMSetting and NMSettingClass definitions from public headers. Their
only use is subclassing the types, which however does not work.
While libnm-core was linking already against nm-meta-setting.c,
nm_meta_setting_infos was unreferenced. So, this change increases
the binary size of libnm and NetworkManager (1032 bytes). Note however
that roughly the same information was previously allocated at runtime.
Add a new option that allows to activate a profile multiple times
(at the same time). Previoulsy, all profiles were implicitly
NM_SETTING_CONNECTION_MULTI_CONNECT_SINGLE, meaning, that activating
a profile that is already active will deactivate it first.
This will make more sense, as we also add more match-options how
profiles can be restricted to particular devices. We already have
connection.type, connection.interface-name, and (ethernet|wifi).mac-address
to restrict a profile to particular devices. For example, it is however
not possible to specify a wildcard like "eth*" to match a profile to
a set of devices by interface-name. That is another missing feature,
and once we extend the matching capabilities, it makes more sense to
activate a profile multiple times.
See also https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=997998, which
previously changed that a connection is restricted to a single activation
at a time. This work relaxes that again.
This only adds the new property, it is not used nor implemented yet.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1555012
NM_SETTING_NAME is a special property that only has relevance
to libnm. It is inherited by all NMSetting instances. It is
read-only, and it has no corresponding value on D-Bus or nmcli.
Skip it during generate-setting-docs.py.
This also drops it from `man nm-settings`, where it doesn't belong.
The virtual function NMMetaType.get_nested() has only one caller:
nm_meta_abstract_info_get_nested(). That caller makes sure to
always pass in an @out_to_free argument, and that it is initialized
to NULL.
