Since commit 2d1b85f (th/assume-vs-unmanaged-bgo746440), we clearly
distinguish between two modes when encountering devices with external
IP configuration:
a) external devices. For those devices we generate a volatile in-memory
connection and pretend it's active. However, the device must not be
touched by NetworkManager in any way.
b) assume, seamless take over. Mostly for restart of NetworkManager,
we activate a connection gracefully without going through an down-up
cycle. After the device reaches activated state, the device is
considered fully managed. For this only an existing, non volatile
connection can be used.
Before 'th/assume-vs-unmanaged-bgo746440', the behaviors were not
clearly separated.
Since then, we only choose to assume a connection (b) when the state
file indicates a matching connection. Now, extend this to also assume
connections when:
- during first-start (not after a restart) when there is no
state file yet.
- and, if we have an existing, non volatile, connection which
matches the device's configuration.
This patch lets NetworkManager assume connection also on first start.
That is for example useful when handing over network configuration from
initrd.
This only applies to existing, permanent, matching(!) connections, so it is a
good guess that the user wants NM to take over this interface. This brings us
closer to the previous behavior before 'th/assume-vs-unmanaged-bgo746440'.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1439220
(cherry picked from commit 27b2477cb7)
nm_config_device_state_*() always access the file system directly,
they don't cache data in NMConfig. Hence, they don't use the
@self argument.
Maybe those functions don't belong to nm-config.h, anyway. For lack
of a better place they are there.
(cherry picked from commit 1940be410c)
Since commit 2d1b85f (th/assume-vs-unmanaged-bgo746440), we clearly
distinguish between two modes when encountering devices with external
IP configuration:
a) external devices. For those devices we generate a volatile in-memory
connection and pretend it's active. However, the device must not be
touched by NetworkManager in any way.
b) assume, seamless take over. Mostly for restart of NetworkManager,
we activate a connection gracefully without going through an down-up
cycle. After the device reaches activated state, the device is
considered fully managed. For this only an existing, non volatile
connection can be used.
Before 'th/assume-vs-unmanaged-bgo746440', the behaviors were not
clearly separated.
Since then, we only choose to assume a connection (b) when the state
file indicates a matching connection. Now, extend this to also assume
connections when:
- during first-start (not after a restart) when there is no
state file yet.
- and, if we have an existing, non volatile, connection which
matches the device's configuration.
This patch lets NetworkManager assume connection also on first start.
That is for example useful when handing over network configuration from
initrd.
This only applies to existing, permanent, matching(!) connections, so it is a
good guess that the user wants NM to take over this interface. This brings us
closer to the previous behavior before 'th/assume-vs-unmanaged-bgo746440'.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1439220
nm_config_device_state_*() always access the file system directly,
they don't cache data in NMConfig. Hence, they don't use the
@self argument.
Maybe those functions don't belong to nm-config.h, anyway. For lack
of a better place they are there.
'nmcli connection show <con_id1> --show-secrets'
secrets were not shown.
'nmcli connection show <con_id1> --show-secrets <con_id2>'
secrets were shown only for connection ids following the
"--show-secrets" option (so only for 'con_id2').
Fix these behaviors showing secrets for all connections also
if the "--show-secrets" option is put after the connection ids.
(cherry picked from commit 4bdb6b026a)
'nmcli connection show <con_id1> --show-secrets'
secrets were not shown.
'nmcli connection show <con_id1> --show-secrets <con_id2>'
secrets were shown only for connection ids following the
"--show-secrets" option (so only for 'con_id2').
Fix these behaviors showing secrets for all connections also
if the "--show-secrets" option is put after the connection ids.
Before, setting a device to unmanaged causes it to go down and clear
the interface state.
It may be useful to instruct NetworkManager not to touch the device
anymore but leave the current state up. Changing behavior for
nmcli device set "$DEV" managed no
To get the previous behavior, one has to first disconnect the interface
via
nmcli device disconnect "$DEV"
nmcli device set "$DEV" managed no
Note that non-permanent addresses like from DHCP will eventually time
out because NetworkManager stops the DHCP client. When instructing
NetworkManager to let go of the device, you have to take it over in
any way you see fit.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1371433
(cherry picked from commit 9e8218f99a)
Arguably, we currently only have one instance of NMPlatform,
NMRouteManager, NMDefaultRouteManager -- the one owned by the
NMNetns singleton.
Hence, all these instances we create with "log-with-ptr" set explicitly
to false.
In the future we want to support namespaces, and it will be be common to
have multiple instances. For that we have "log-with-ptr" so we are able
to disambiguiate the logging.
Change the default to TRUE because it makes more sense. It has currently
no effect as the default is never used.
(cherry picked from commit 41148caba8)
Reduce the use of NM_PLATFORM_GET / nm_platform_get() to get
the platform singleton instance.
For one, this is a step towards supporting namespaces, where we need
to use different NMNetns/NMPlatform instances depending on in which
namespace the device lives.
Also, we should reduce our use of singletons. They are difficult to
coordinate on shutdown. Instead there should be a clear order of
dependencies, expressed by owning a reference to those singelton
instances. We already own a reference to the platform singelton,
so use it and avoid NM_PLATFORM_GET.
(cherry picked from commit 94d9ee129d)
This also ensures that we own a reference to the
NMPlatform, NMRouteManager and NMDefaultRouteManager
instances. See bug rh#1440089 where we might access
the singleton getter after destroing the singleton
instance of NMRouteManager. This is prevented by
keeping a reference to those instances -- indirectly
via the netns instance.
Later, we may add support for multiple namespaces. Then it might
make sense to swap the NMNetns instance of a device when moving
the device between namespaces.
Also, drop the use of singelton instances.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1440089
(cherry picked from commit c48a19b7c6)
NMPlatform, NMRouteManager and NMDefaultRouteManager are singletons
instances. Users of those are for example NMDevice, which registers
to GObject signals of both NMPlatform and NMRouteManager.
Hence, as NMDevice:dispose() disconnects the signal handlers, it must
ensure that those singleton instances live longer then the NMDevice
instance. That is usually accomplished by having users of singleton
instances own a reference to those instances.
For NMDevice that effectively means that it shall own a reference to
several singletons.
NMPlatform, NMRouteManager, and NMDefaultRouteManager are all
per-namespace. In general it doesn't make sense to have more then
one instances of these per name space. Nnote that currently we don't
support multiple namespaces yet. If we will ever support multiple
namespaces, then a NMDevice would have a reference to all of these
manager instances. Hence, introduce a new class NMNetns which bundles
them together.
(cherry picked from commit 0af2f5c28b)
Before, setting a device to unmanaged causes it to go down and clear
the interface state.
It may be useful to instruct NetworkManager not to touch the device
anymore but leave the current state up. Changing behavior for
nmcli device set "$DEV" managed no
To get the previous behavior, one has to first disconnect the interface
via
nmcli device disconnect "$DEV"
nmcli device set "$DEV" managed no
Note that non-permanent addresses like from DHCP will eventually time
out because NetworkManager stops the DHCP client. When instructing
NetworkManager to let go of the device, you have to take it over in
any way you see fit.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1371433
Arguably, we currently only have one instance of NMPlatform,
NMRouteManager, NMDefaultRouteManager -- the one owned by the
NMNetns singleton.
Hence, all these instances we create with "log-with-ptr" set explicitly
to false.
In the future we want to support namespaces, and it will be be common to
have multiple instances. For that we have "log-with-ptr" so we are able
to disambiguiate the logging.
Change the default to TRUE because it makes more sense. It has currently
no effect as the default is never used.
Reduce the use of NM_PLATFORM_GET / nm_platform_get() to get
the platform singleton instance.
For one, this is a step towards supporting namespaces, where we need
to use different NMNetns/NMPlatform instances depending on in which
namespace the device lives.
Also, we should reduce our use of singletons. They are difficult to
coordinate on shutdown. Instead there should be a clear order of
dependencies, expressed by owning a reference to those singelton
instances. We already own a reference to the platform singelton,
so use it and avoid NM_PLATFORM_GET.
