This patch add support to IPVLAN interface. IPVLAN is a driver for a
virtual network device that can be used in container environment to
access the host network. IPVLAN exposes a single MAC address to the
external network regardless the number of IPVLAN device created inside
the host network. This means that a user can have multiple IPVLAN
devices in multiple containers and the corresponding switch reads a
single MAC address. IPVLAN driver is useful when the local switch
imposes constraints on the total number of MAC addresses that it can
manage.
When a connection with ipv4.method=auto (DHCP) is configured with
ipv4.link-local=enable we were leaving the link-local address forever,
but this is not correct according to RFC3927[1] which says:
a host SHOULD NOT have both an operable routable address and an IPv4
Link-Local address configured on the same interface.
This adds a new mode that is more compliant, which only sets an IPv4
link-local address if no other address is set (through either DHCP lease
or ivp4.addresses setting)
Closes#1562
Link: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/13316
Link: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc3927#section-1.9 [1]
At the moment, the access point mode uses 20MHz channels. Introduce a
new 'wifi.channel-width' property that allows the use of a larger
bandwidth, thus increasing performances.
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.
A common source for doubts and questions from users is about why
devices are unmanaged. Unfortunately NM doesn't expose that
information properly via D-Bus and so it's not available in nmcli.
The device D-Bus object has two properties that are strictly related:
"state" and "state-reason". The latter represents the reason for the
current state. Introduce new reasons to indicate the possible causes
for the unmanaged state. Note that a device can be unmanaged because
of multiple reasons at the same time, we only return one.
Before:
$ nmcli -f GENERAL.DEVICE,GENERAL.TYPE,GENERAL.STATE,GENERAL.reason device show
GENERAL.DEVICE: enp7s0
GENERAL.TYPE: ethernet
GENERAL.STATE: 10 (unmanaged)
GENERAL.REASON: 0 (No reason given)
GENERAL.DEVICE: tun0
GENERAL.TYPE: tun
GENERAL.STATE: 10 (unmanaged)
GENERAL.REASON: 0 (No reason given)
GENERAL.DEVICE: hwsim0
GENERAL.TYPE: unknown
GENERAL.STATE: 10 (unmanaged)
GENERAL.REASON: 0 (No reason given)
After:
$ nmcli -f GENERAL.DEVICE,GENERAL.TYPE,GENERAL.STATE,GENERAL.reason device show
GENERAL.DEVICE: enp7s0
GENERAL.TYPE: ethernet
GENERAL.STATE: 10 (unmanaged)
GENERAL.REASON: 76 (The device is unmanaged by user decision via settings plugin ("unmanaged-devices" for keyfile or "NM_CONTROLLED=no" for ifcfg-rh))
GENERAL.DEVICE: tun0
GENERAL.TYPE: tun
GENERAL.STATE: 10 (unmanaged)
GENERAL.REASON: 75 (The device is unmanaged by explicit user decision (e.g. 'nmcli device set $DEV managed no')
GENERAL.DEVICE: hwsim0
GENERAL.TYPE: unknown
GENERAL.STATE: 10 (unmanaged)
GENERAL.REASON: 69 (The device is unmanaged because the device type is unmanaged by default)
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/-/merge_requests/1887
Setting for wpa_supplicant openssl_ciphers - openssl sometimes moves
ciphers among SECLEVELs. That is generaly a good thing, but some servers
are too old to support newer ciphers. Thus expert user should be allowed
to define openssl_ciphers per connection, so that they can connect to
old server, while not compromising security of other connections.
With `NM_CHECKPOINT_CREATE_FLAG_TRACK_INTERNAL_GLOBAL_DNS` flag set on
checkpoint creation, the checkpoint rollback will restore the
global DNS in internal configure file
`/var/lib/NetworkManager/NetworkManager-intern.conf`.
If user has set global DNS in /etc folder, this flag will not take any
effect.
Resolves: https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-23446
Signed-off-by: Gris Ge <fge@redhat.com>
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.
If the device-handler of the generic connection is set, the connection
is virtual and the device is created by invoking the device-handler
via NetworkManager-dispatcher service.
With this change, a generic device now represents two different device
classes:
- existing interfaces that are not natively supported or recognized
by NetworkManager. Those devices have the `has_device_handler`
property set to FALSE;
- interfaces that are created by NM by invoking the device-handler;
they have `has_device_handler` set to TRUE.
Add a new "generic.device-handler" property that specifies the name of
a dispatcher script to be invoked to add and delete the interface for
this connection.
Probably not all drivers and devices return all parameters. Set them to
"unknown" if they are missing and let the caller to decide what to do.
In our case, if the sriov setting has a value different to "preserve" it
will try to set it (and will probably fail). But if the missing
parameter is set to "preserve" in the sriov setting we can continue,
just ignoring it.
Add property to allow changing the eswitch mode between legacy SRIOV and
switchdev. Allow also to set "preserve" to prevent NM from modifying the
eswitch mode.
Depending on the type of challenge used in the 2FA authentication, the
user input doesn't need to be hidden and sometimes it's even undesired
(it makes more difficult to enter the text).
Allow to VPN plugins to indicate that a secret that is being requested
is a 2FA challenge with ECHO mode enabled:
- When using auth dialog: accept a new option "ForceEcho" that can be
set to TRUE to enable ECHO.
- When using the fallback method: recognize the prefix
"x-dynamic-challenge-echo". This indicate both that ECHO should be enabled
and that this is a 2FA challenge (see previous commit).
The correct way to enable echo mode from VPN plugins is doing both
things: pass the hint prefixed with "x-dynamic-challenge-echo" and add the
option "ForceEcho=true" for the auth dialog.
An attempt to support ECHO mode from NM-openvpn was made by passing
"IsSecret=false", but it didn't work because nm-secret-agent-simple
ignores returned values for which "IsSecret=false". It's not a good idea
to start accepting them because we could break other plugins, and anyway
the challenge response is actually a secret, so it is better to keep it
as such and add this new "ForceEcho" option.
This is backwards compatible because existing plugins were not using the
tag nor the auth dialog option. Withouth them, the previous behaviour is
preserved. On the contrary, plugins that want to use this new feature
will need to bump their NM version dependency because old daemons will
not handle correctly the prefix tag.
Secret agents will need to be updated to check secret->force_echo if
they want to support this feature. Until they update, the only drawback
is that ECHO mode will be ignored and the user's input will be hidden.
Updated nmcli and nmtui to support ECHO mode.
Clients using nm-secret-agent-simple always asked for some default VPN
secrets, which are dependent on the VPN service, when the auth dialog
can't be used and the fallback method is used instead.
When using 2FA this has to be avoided in the 2nd step because those
default secrets were already requested and validated in the 1st step.
Fix it by adding a new "x-dynamic-challenge" prefix tag that can be used
in the hints received from the VPN plugin. This tag indicates that we
are in the 2nd step of a 2FA authentication. This way we know that we
don't have to request the default secrets this time. Note that the tag
name doesn't explicitly mention VPNs so it can be reused for other type
of connections in the future.
As the default secrets were requested always unconditionally when using
the fallback method, there is no possible workaround to this problem
that avoids having to change libnm-client.
The change is backwards compatible because VPN plugins were not using
the tag and the previous behaviour does not change if the tag is not
used. However, VPN plugins that want to properly support 2FA
aunthentication will need to bump the NM version dependency because
old daemons won't handle properly a hint with the new prefix tag.
Finally, move the macro that defines the "x-vpn-message:" tag in a public
header so it is more visible for users. It has been renamed and prefixed
with the NM_ namespace so it shouldn't collide with macros defined in
the VPN plugins.
Currently the internal DHCP client sets traffic class "CS6" in the DS
field of the IP header for outgoing packets.
dhclient sets the field according to the definition of TOS (RFC 1349),
which was was deprecated in 1998 by RFC 2474 in favor of DSCP.
Introduce a new property IPvX.dhcp-dscp (currently valid only for
IPv4) to specify a custom DSCP value for DHCP backends that support it
(currently, only the internal one).
Define the default value to CS0, because:
- section 4.9 of RFC 4594 specifies that DHCP should use the standard
(CS0 = 0) service class;
- section 3.2 says that class CS6 is for "transmitting packets
between network devices (routers) that require control (routing)
information to be exchanged between nodes", listing "OSPF, BGP,
ISIS, RIP" as examples of such traffic. Furthermore, it says that:
User traffic is not allowed to use this service class. By user
traffic, we mean packet flows that originate from user-controlled
end points that are connected to the network.
- we got reports of some Cisco switches dropping DHCP packets because
of the CS6 marking.
To embrace inclusive language, deprecate the NMSettingConnection
slave-type property and introduce port-type property.
Signed-off-by: Fernando Fernandez Mancera <ffmancera@riseup.net>
The supervision address is read-only. It is constructed by kernel and
only the last byte can be modified by setting the multicast-spec as
documented indeed.
As 1.46 was not released yet, we still can drop the whole API for this
setting property. We are keeping the NMDeviceHsr property as it is a
nice to have for reading it.
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/-/merge_requests/1823
Fixes: 5426bdf4a1 ('HSR: add support to HSR/PRP interface')
nm_utils_escape_ssid() uses a static buffer, which makes it non
thread-safe. We shouldn't have such API in libnm. We could improve that
by using a thread-local storage, but that brings overhead, for a
function that really isn't useful.
It's not useful, because the escaping is very naive. You are better
served with:
- nm_utils_ssid_to_utf8(): gives UTF-8, but looses information.
- nm_utils_bin2hexstr(): does not loose information, but makes the
name unreadable.
Maybe the best way to escape the SSID (which can be binary, but usually
is UTF-8), are the utf8safe functions. That is because it makes the
blob UFT-8, while not loosing/hiding any bytes (the escaping can be
reversed). This API is currently not exposed to the users, if there were
a need, then this could be done as a 3rd way for printing SSIDs.
However, nm_utils_escape_ssid() is bad either way. Deprecate.
This patch add support to HSR/PRP interface. Please notice that PRP
driver is represented as HSR too. They are different drivers but on
kernel they are integrated together.
HSR/PRP is a network protocol standard for Ethernet that provides
seamless failover against failure of any network component. It intends
to be transparent to the application. These protocols are useful for
applications that request high availability and short switchover time
e.g electrical substation or high power inverters.
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/-/merge_requests/1791
This commit fixes the build process for the documentation that was previously
unable to build separately via meson due to a dependency issue.
Previously, trying to build the API documentation via `ninja NetworkManager-doc`
failed due to missing dependencies (for example, `nm-dbus-types.xml` was not built).
I believe this happens due to some different handling of static paths vs. custom_target
by meson in this case.
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/-/merge_requests/1801
Fixes: 03637ad8b5 ('build: add initial support for meson build system')
Some Applications require to explicitly enable or disable EEE.
Therefore introduce EEE (Energy Efficient Ethernet) support with:
* ethtool.eee on/off
Unit test case included.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Zink <j.zink@pengutronix.de>
ethtool "channels" parameters can be used to configure multiple queues
for a NIC, which helps to improve performances. Until now, users had
to use dispatcher scripts to change those parameters. Introduce native
support in NetworkManager by adding the following properties:
- ethtool.channels-rx
- ethtool.channels-tx
- ethtool.channels-other
- ethtool.channels-combined
Adds a new WiFi 6GHz capability flag, NM_WIFI_DEVICE_CAP_FREQ_6GHZ,
along side the existing NM_WIFI_DEVICE_CAP_FREQ_2GHZ &
NM_WIFI_DEVICE_CAP_FREQ_5GHZ flags.
Gnome settings utilizes the 2 existing flags to present supported
bands in gnome-settings. I will be using this additional flag in
modifications there.
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/-/merge_requests/1739
The ifcfg-rh plugin is now deprecated and in bugfixes-only mode. When
users try to set a property that is not supported by the plugin, we
need to report an error.
Add an helper function to set such error. Also, introduce a new error
code so that the situation can be detected and dealt with
programmatically.
We want to guard against concurrent modifications of profiles. We cannot
lock profiles, so what we instead do is expose (and bump) a version ID.
The user can check the version ID, plan ahead what to do, and tell
NetworkManager to only make the modification if no concurrent
modification was done. The conflict can be detected via the version ID.
The Update2() D-Bus call gets a parameter to only allow the request if
the version ID still matches.
nmcli should use this, but it is quite some effort to retry upon
concurrent modification. This is still to do.
Note that the user might make a decision that is based on multiple
profiles. As the new version-id is only per-profile, we cannot guard
against such inter-profile modifications. What would be needed, is a
UpdateMany() call, where we could modify multiple profiles at once, and
the action only takes effect if all version IDs show no concurrent
modification. That's not done yet, and maybe never will be.
Add per port priority support for bond active port re-selection during
failover. A higher number means a higher priority in selection. The
primary port still has the highest priority. This option is only
compatible with active-backup, balance-tlb and balance-alb modes.
