Hullo

I’m starting to migrate my fedora stock to NetworkManager. In one particular 
test scenario, I tried to create a direct copy of the final machine 
configuration using NM and the old "systemctl start network” approach. The VMs 
are temporally separated (ie I spin up the old one save interrogation results 
about configuration; kill it and repeat with the new one).  The only 
differences between the two machines should be the hostnames (so that the 
puppet configuration knows them as different machines) and the mac addresses.

One inconsistency that I’ve found is that the NetworkManager cannot seem to 
spin up a tunnel unless the ipv4 addresses differ between the VMs. For the NM 
controlled VM, pulling apart the actual command run, I see:
[code]
nmcli con up uuid 4a341ad1-3e31-7ee8-82ee-2019bf995ad8
<response>
Error: Connection activation failed: No suitable device found for this 
connection.
[/code]

where the uuid represents the sit1 device. However, on the same VM (either 
directly invoked or by turning off NM and running ifup sit1):
[code]
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-sit sit1
[/code]

spins up the tunnel.

If I put the ‘copy’ VM on different IP address(es). NM seems happy to spin up 
the tunnel. Note that in both cases there are no conflicting computers/ip 
addresses on the network at the same time.

Am I (probabably) seeing the intended behaviour for NM - in which case I need 
to modify my testing approach - or do I need to dig further to confirm a bug?

tia

Tim
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