On Tue, 2016-11-15 at 18:50 +0100, poma wrote:
> On 15.11.2016 16:29, Thomas Haller wrote:
> > 
> > On Tue, 2016-11-15 at 10:35 +0100, poma wrote:
> > > 
> > > The applet offers "Auto Ethernet" despite that this feature is
> > > explicitly disabled in the configuration.
> > > A bug, or a feature?
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > 
> > These two things are not the same.
> 
> Did you mean the correlation in terms of interaction?


 1) "default-wired-connection" is in the server, which is related
    to the configuration parameter "no-auto-default" in 
    NetworkManger.conf
 2) the UI field "Auto Ethernet" in nm-applet

They are not the same thing.

2) is not implemented in terms of 1).
1) is a server-only thing
2) is a nm-applet thing -- To realize this, nm-applet of course talks 
   to the server too. But large parts of the logic happen in nm-applet.


> > In the server, "auto default connections" are there so that you can
> > boot a machine without any connections and NetworkManager will
> > create a
> > (default) connection automatically.
> > "no-auto-default" in NetworkManager.conf disables this.
> 
> What exactly does mean -server- in "In the server"?

NetworkManager is a server/daemon to configure networking.
"in the server" means something that happens in the NetworkManager
process.
Sometimes things happen in the server as result of command from a
client via D-Bus.
Not in case of 1). No client interaction is involved there.



> > The "Auto Ethernet" in nm-applet, creates a new connection from
> > client
> > side, and activates it.
> 
> Did you mean, NetworkManager via the applet offers "Ad hoc" Ethernet
> connection, and user can eventually consume it?

Clicking 2), cause
  - nm-applet to constuct a new connection (client-side)
  - send the new connection via D-Bus to NetworkManager (server-side)
  - server stores the new connection
  - server activates the new connection.


does that make any sense?
Thomas



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