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Thomas Haller 0fb723e720 libnm: relax comparison of bond-option for INFERRABLE match
When comparing the bond-settings of an activated device against
the settings from the connection, some properties might easily
differ. Hack them around in NMSettingBond:compare_property().

For example:

the setting in the connection has:
    [bond]
    mode=active-backup

later, the device gets:
    [bond]
    active_slave=inf_ib0
    fail_over_mac=active
    mode=active-backup

Note that the fail_over_mac changes due to:
  kernel: nm-bond: enslaved VLAN challenged slave inf_ib0. Adding VLANs will be blocked as long as inf_ib0 is part of bond nm-bond
  kernel: nm-bond: The slave device specified does not support setting the MAC address
  kernel: nm-bond: Setting fail_over_mac to active for active-backup mode

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1375558
2016-09-22 18:32:54 +02:00
callouts all: cleanup includes in header files 2016-08-17 19:09:50 +02:00
clients cli: fix yes/no completion in questionnaire mode 2016-09-19 16:58:18 +02:00
contrib contrib/rpm: fix wrong argument to configure script 2016-08-18 14:53:42 +02:00
data doc: add comment to systemd's NetworkManager.service about ibft requiring CAP_SYS_ADMIN 2016-09-02 15:39:08 +02:00
docs docs: add device statistics interface 2016-08-17 16:08:21 +02:00
examples checkpoint: add python D-Bus example 2016-08-17 14:55:34 +02:00
introspection dbus: deprecated NM specific PropertiesChanged signals 2016-09-02 20:13:36 +02:00
libnm build: fix build with address sanitizer 2016-09-20 13:44:04 +02:00
libnm-core libnm: relax comparison of bond-option for INFERRABLE match 2016-09-22 18:32:54 +02:00
libnm-glib all: cleanup includes in header files 2016-08-17 19:09:50 +02:00
libnm-util all: cleanup includes in header files 2016-08-17 19:09:50 +02:00
m4 build: move detection of NM_GIT_SHA to separate "m4/git-sha-record.m4" 2016-09-14 14:11:07 +02:00
man man: NetworkManager.conf: better document dns=dnsmasq 2016-09-20 15:32:37 +02:00
po po: update German (de) translation (bgo#771732) 2016-09-21 11:24:27 +02:00
policy all: fix typos in documentation and translated strings 2016-08-26 19:00:12 +02:00
shared macros: simplify NM_IN_SET() and NM_IN_STRSET() macros 2016-09-22 16:34:22 +02:00
src device: fix nm_utils_match_connection() for NMSettingInfiniband:mac-address 2016-09-22 16:48:27 +02:00
tools manager: add Reload() D-Bus command 2016-06-01 19:06:34 +02:00
vapi build: make libnm-util/libnm-glib optional 2015-08-10 09:41:26 -04:00
.dir-locals.el misc: add toplevel .dir-locals file that tells Emacs to show trailing whitespace 2013-03-08 15:15:28 +01:00
.gitignore docs: include the D-Bus enums reference with the API documentation 2016-04-22 10:02:37 +02:00
.travis.yml libnm-core: use jansson to compare and check team configurations 2016-04-18 21:50:51 +02:00
AUTHORS misc: update maintainers and authors 2016-04-21 13:39:03 -05:00
autogen.sh Revert "build: fix autogen.sh for builddir != srcdir" 2016-06-06 13:52:57 +02:00
ChangeLog fix typos in documentation and messages 2014-04-03 17:12:31 +02:00
configure.ac build: move detection of NM_GIT_SHA to separate "m4/git-sha-record.m4" 2016-09-14 14:11:07 +02:00
CONTRIBUTING doc: update CONTRIBUTING to no longer allow // FIXME comments 2016-02-04 17:59:05 +01:00
COPYING docs: create new master NM documentation module 2011-02-16 16:24:16 -06:00
MAINTAINERS misc: update maintainers and authors 2016-04-21 13:39:03 -05:00
Makefile.am build: rename directory "include" to "shared" 2015-12-24 11:42:37 +01:00
Makefile.glib build: include "config.h" in nm*enum-types.c sources 2015-10-05 15:01:38 +02:00
NetworkManager.pc.in build: update NetworkManager.pc 2013-01-29 16:17:30 -05:00
NEWS device: change default value for cloned-mac-address to "preserve" (bgo#770611) 2016-09-12 14:01:57 +02:00
nm.mk build: fix build with address sanitizer 2016-09-20 13:44:04 +02:00
README trivial: typo fixes 2010-09-25 00:34:10 -05:00
TODO wimax: drop WiMAX support (bgo #747846) 2015-04-17 12:42:23 -04:00
valgrind.suppressions ifnet: fix memory leaks 2016-06-03 22:19:38 +02:00
zanata.xml po: add Zanata configuration 2016-04-05 14:35:53 +02:00

******************
2008-12-11: NetworkManager core daemon has moved to git.freedesktop.org!

git clone git://git.freedesktop.org/git/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.git
******************


Networking that Just Works
--------------------------

NetworkManager attempts to keep an active network connection available at all
times.  The point of NetworkManager is to make networking configuration and
setup as painless and automatic as possible.  NetworkManager is intended to
replace default route, replace other routes, set IP addresses, and in general
configure networking as NM sees fit (with the possibility of manual override as
necessary).  In effect, the goal of NetworkManager is to make networking Just
Work with a minimum of user hassle, but still allow customization and a high
level of manual network control.  If you have special needs, we'd like to hear
about them, but understand that NetworkManager is not intended for every
use-case.

NetworkManager will attempt to keep every network device in the system up and
active, as long as the device is available for use (has a cable plugged in,
the killswitch isn't turned on, etc).  Network connections can be set to
'autoconnect', meaning that NetworkManager will make that connection active
whenever it and the hardware is available.

"Settings services" store lists of user- or administrator-defined "connections",
which contain all the settings and parameters required to connect to a specific
network.  NetworkManager will _never_ activate a connection that is not in this
list, or that the user has not directed NetworkManager to connect to.


How it works:

The NetworkManager daemon runs as a privileged service (since it must access
and control hardware), but provides a D-Bus interface on the system bus to
allow for fine-grained control of networking.  NetworkManager does not store
connections or settings, it is only the mechanism by which those connections
are selected and activated.

To store pre-defined network connections, two separate services, the "system
settings service" and the "user settings service" store connection information
and provide these to NetworkManager, also via D-Bus.  Each settings service
can determine how and where it persistently stores the connection information;
for example, the GNOME applet stores its configuration in GConf, and the system
settings service stores it's config in distro-specific formats, or in a distro-
agnostic format, depending on user/administrator preference.

A variety of other system services are used by NetworkManager to provide
network functionality: wpa_supplicant for wireless connections and 802.1x
wired connections, pppd for PPP and mobile broadband connections, DHCP clients
for dynamic IP addressing, dnsmasq for proxy nameserver and DHCP server
functionality for internet connection sharing, and avahi-autoipd for IPv4
link-local addresses.  Most communication with these daemons occurs, again,
via D-Bus.


Why doesn't my network Just Work?

Driver problems are the #1 cause of why NetworkManager sometimes fails to
connect to wireless networks.  Often, the driver simply doesn't behave in a
consistent manner, or is just plain buggy.  NetworkManager supports _only_
those drivers that are shipped with the upstream Linux kernel, because only
those drivers can be easily fixed and debugged.  ndiswrapper, vendor binary
drivers, or other out-of-tree drivers may or may not work well with
NetworkManager, precisely because they have not been vetted and improved by the
open-source community, and because problems in these drivers usually cannot
be fixed.

Sometimes, command-line tools like 'iwconfig' will work, but NetworkManager will
fail.  This is again often due to buggy drivers, because these drivers simply
aren't expecting the dynamic requests that NetworkManager and wpa_supplicant
make.  Driver bugs should be filed in the bug tracker of the distribution being
run, since often distributions customize their kernel and drivers.

Sometimes, it really is NetworkManager's fault.  If you think that's the case,
please file a bug at http://bugzilla.gnome.org and choose the NetworkManager
component.  Attaching the output of /var/log/messages or /var/log/daemon.log
(wherever your distribution directs syslog's 'daemon' facility output) is often
very helpful, and (if you can get) a working wpa_supplicant config file helps
enormously.