The order of addresses can matter for source address selection.
This is described in RFC 6724 section 5, but if the rules don't
determine a clear winner, the order matters.
Change the relative order of IPv6 addresses. Previously, we would prefer
autoconf6, over DHCPv6, over manual addresses. Now that got reverted
to make more sense and be consistent with IPv4.
Also, if we had multiple autoconf6 addresses (received at different
moments in time), then previously a newly received address would be
added with highest priority. Now, the older address will be preferred
and that order will be enforced (this can be a problem, see (*) below).
For IPv4, it's all simple and sensible. When we add addresses in kernel
via netlink, the first address (of a subnet) becomes the primary.
Note that we only control the order of addresses of the same subnet.
The addresses in ipv4.addresses" are sorted with primary address first.
In the same way is the order for addresses in NML3ConfigData and for
@known_addresses in nm_platform_ip_address_sync(), all primary-first.
Also, manual addresses are sorted with higher priority compared to DHCPv4
addresses (at least since NetworkManager 1.36). That means the way how we
merge NML3ConfigData makes sense (nm_l3_config_data_merge()) because we first
merge the static configuration, then the DHCPv4 configuration, where we just
append the lower priority DHCPv4 addresses.
For IPv6, the address priority is messed up. On netlink/kernel, the last added
address becomes the preferred one (we thus need to add them in the order of
lowest priority first). Consequently and historically, the IPv6 addresses in
@known_addresses parameter to nm_platform_ip_address_sync() were
lowest priority first. And so they were tracked in NML3ConfigData
and in the profile ("ipv6.addresses"). That is confusing.
Also, we usually want to merge NML3ConfigData with different priorities
(e.g. static configuration from the profile before autoconf6/DHCPv6),
as we do with IPv4. However, since internally IPv6 addresses are tracked in
reverse order, it means later NML3ConfigData would be appended and get effectively
a higher priority. That means, autoconf6 addresses were preferred over DHCPv6 and
over manual "ipv6.addresses", respectively. That seems undesirable and inconsistent
with IPv4. Change that. This is a change in behavior.
Note that changing the order of addresses means to remove and re-add
them in the right (inverse) order, with lease important first. This
means, when we add a new address with lower priority, we need to remove
all higher priority addresses temporarily, before readding them. That
is a problem(*).
Note that in the profile, "ipv6.addresses" is still tracked in reverse
order. This did not change, but might change later.
This adds a global "--offline" option and allows its use with "add" and
"modify" commands. The "add" looks like this:
$ nmcli --offline conn add type ethernet ens3 ipv4.dns 192.168.1.1 \
>output.nmconnection
The "modify" is essentially implementing what's been suggested by
Beniamino in bugzilla ticked (referred to below):
$ nmcli --offline connection modify ens3 ipv4.dns 192.168.1.1 \
<input.nmconnection >output.nmconnection
Other commands don't support the argument at the moment:
$ nmcli --offline c up ens3
Error: 'up' command doesn't support --offline mode.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1361145
This is long replaced by nettools' n-dhcp4 client.
Drop it.
We still require NMDhcpSystemd for the DHCPv6 client.
Note that "[main].dhcp=systemd" now falls back to the internal client.
But this option was undocumented and internal anyway.
Currently it is possible to specify a list of default settings plugins
to be used when configuration doesn't contain the main.plugins key.
We want to add a mechanism that allows to automatically load any
plugin found in the plugins directory without needing
configuration. This mechanism is useful when plugins are shipped in a
different, optional subpackage, to automatically use them.
With such mechanism, the actual list of plugins will be determined
(in order of evaluation):
1. via explicit user configuration in /etc, if any
2. via distro configuration in /usr, if any
3. using the build-time default, if any
4. looking for known plugins in /usr/lib
This paragraph that "it's likely that" some changes will be backported
to 1.34 branch seems unnecessary. Whenever we backport things to 1.34
we will add them to the NEWS file for nm-1-34, and then also mention
them in nm-1-36 and newer. But we don't need to announce that.
It seems that the nftables backend works well. Let's change the default.
This will also be backported to nm-1-32 branch, for 1.32.0 release.
This reverts commit 0609f1f31c.
D-Bus 1.3.1 (2010) introduced the standard "PropertiesChanged" signal
on "org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties". NetworkManager is old, and predates
this API. From that time, it still had it's own PropertiesChanged signal
that are emitted together with the standard ones. NetworkManager
supports the standard PropertiesChanged signal since it switched to
gdbus library in version 1.2.0 (2016).
These own signals are deprecated for a long time already ([1], 2016), and
are hopefully not used by anybody anymore. libnm-glib was using them and
relied on them, but that library is gone. libnm does not use them and neither
does plasma-nm.
Hopefully no users are left that are affected by this API break.
[1] 6fb917178a
For NetworkManager profiles, "connection.uuid" is the identifier of the
profile. It is supposed to be a UUID, however:
- the UUID was not ensured to be all-lower case. We should make sure
that our UUIDs are in a consistent manner, so that users can rely
on the format of the string.
- the UUID was never actually interpreted as a UUID. It only was some
opaque string, that we use as identifier. We had nm_utils_is_uuid()
which checks that the format is valid, however that did not fully
validate the format, like it would accept "----7daf444dd78741a59e1ef1b3c8b1c0e8"
and "549fac10a25f4bcc912d1ae688c2b4987daf444d" (40 hex characters).
Both invalid UUIDs and non-normalized UUID should be normalized. We
don't want to break existing profiles that use such UUIDs, thus we don't
outright reject them. Let's instead mangle them during
nm_connection_normalize().
Property aliases should really just be shortcuts for one fully spelled
out property (sometimes, they do more like "master").
Anyway, we must also handle resetting the value, otherwise:
$ nmcli connection add type gsm apn ""
will still result in "gsm.apn=internet", unlike
$ nmcli connection add type gsm gsm.apn ""
