Add a new property to specify the minimum time interval in
milliseconds for which dynamic IP configuration should be tried before
the connection succeeds.
This property is useful for example if both IPv4 and IPv6 are enabled
and are allowed to fail. Normally the connection succeeds as soon as
one of the two address families completes; by setting a required
timeout for e.g. IPv4, one can ensure that even if IP6 succeeds
earlier than IPv4, NetworkManager waits some time for IPv4 before the
connection becomes active.
Most string properties can be either %NULL (unset) or a non-empty
string.
For a few properties, like "gsm.apn", also the empty word is a valid
value. That makes it problematic to use from nmcli, because
nmcli connection modify "$PROFILE" gsm.apn ""
means to reset the default (NULL). How to configure the empty word?
For the APN, "" has a specific meaning, distinct from NULL, so we
need to be able to represent that.
The other problem with nmcli is that
nmcli -g gsm.apn connection show "$PROFILE"
is supposed to give you a value that you an set again, like
X="$(nmcli -g gsm.apn connection show "$PROFILE"; echo x)"
nmcli connection modify "$PROFILE2" gsm.apn "${X%$'\n'x}"
but for %NULL and "" the output would be the same.
The "solution" to that is interpreting "" as NULL (like we always did)
and a non-empty string that contains all whitespace, like a string with
one whitespace less. This way, all values can be expressed.
Note that in case of "gsm.apn", the string is anyway internally
normalized with g_strstrip(), so a string with all whitespace was
not expressable.
This patch is introducing the wired setting accept-all-mac-addresses
property. The value corresponds to the kernel flag IFF_PROMISC.
When accept-all-mac-address is enabled, the interface will accept all
the packets without checking the destination mac address.
Signed-off-by: Fernando Fernandez Mancera <ffmancera@riseup.net>
Having two functions like link_set_x() and link_set_nox() it is not a
good idea. This patch is introducing nm_platform_link_change_flags().
This allow flag modification directly, so the developer does not need to
define the virtual functions all the time everywhere.
Signed-off-by: Fernando Fernandez Mancera <ffmancera@riseup.net>
The script runs with "set -e", as such `cmd && r=ok` seems wrong.
It worked apparently, but I don't understand why. Anyway, change
it.
Fixes: e643703418 ('tests/client: run "test-client.py" also for meson')
See also commit 00e3fc036a ('clients/tests: ensure that we run nmcli
before client tests for LTO').
With the latest rework that code was dropped and tests (with LTO) are
broken as they hit a timeout (aside taking much longer).
Fixes: e643703418 ('tests/client: run "test-client.py" also for meson')
We now get unit test failures hitting this timeout. That is
likely a new bug introduced somewhere, but to rule out that
the timeout is simply too short, increase it.
Note that "test-client.py" currently only tests nmcli. But what it does
is to spawn test-networkmanager-service.py and run nmcli against it.
As such, it could really be used to test any NetworkManager client
against the stub service. Hence this test is not under
"src/nmcli/tests", but under "src/tests/client/" where it is more
general.