On Fri, 2014-07-04 at 11:51 +1000, Stuart Longland wrote: > Hi Dan, > On 04/07/14 10:51, Dan Williams wrote: > > On Fri, 2014-07-04 at 09:18 +1000, Stuart Longland wrote: > >> But how do I encode my address settings in a Settings.Connection object? > >> Where do I find a list of the settings and their possible values? > > There's actually a bunch of Python examples here: > > > > http://cgit.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/tree/examples/python > > > > that use both plain dbus and Python GObject introspection. The GObject > > introspection ones are similar to python-networkmanager actually. I'm > > not sure how python-networkmanager accepts a new connection to add, but > > perhaps the examples give you an idea how to do that? > > Ahh okay, that's handy. I'll have a dig through those and see what I > can uncover. > > > I'd expect it to > > be a normal "dict of dicts" like the examples above show which is then > > passed to org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.Settings.AddConnection(). > > It does appear that way, I tried pulling the information out for my > Ethernet connection and got: > > In [9]: conn.GetSettings() > > Out[9]: > > {u'bridge': {u'interface-name': u'br0', u'stp': False}, > > u'connection': {u'id': u'Bridge Ethernet', > > u'type': u'bridge', > > u'uuid': u'357c4dcf-2600-45fa-8687-05f4c2cb82b4', > > u'zone': u'work'}, > > u'ipv4': {u'addresses': [], > > u'dns': [], > > u'may-fail': False, > > u'method': u'auto', > > u'routes': []}, > > u'ipv6': {u'addresses': [], u'dns': [], u'method': u'auto', u'routes': []}} > > It seems NetworkManager doesn't much like my hand-configured bridge > (won't see its IP address), but that's a side issue. > > What I'm curious about is what sorts of keys and values are expected in > that dict of dicts? At a basic level I need to be able to set IP > addresses, static routes, DNS servers, domain and DNS search order.
Did you see https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/NetworkManager/Developers ? especially https://developer.gnome.org/NetworkManager/0.9/ref-settings.html (or try `man nm-settings` if you have the manual pages installed) > Probably host name too (not sure if that's doable in NetworkManager). SaveHostname , see https://developer.gnome.org/NetworkManager/0.9/spec.html > At least that will be the starting point. The devices in question we're > setting up will be headless boxes, basically appliances, intended to > poll energy meters in an energy management system and pump the data > elsewhere. > > So mostly wired access, there's a couple of places where we have a > bridges and OpenVPN for technical support on some sites and I envisage > some possibly needing cellular 3G support. > > No one has approached us with the need for WIFI support, but I bet > someone will some day, thus it'd be useful to know how that's configured > too. I would say, this *should* all work (without knowing your exact requirements) > Is there some documentation as to how these various network types are > specified as dict objects to NetworkManager? I think above links is a good starting point, otherwise just ask. Thomas
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