On Wed, 2018-10-24 at 15:52 +0200, Thomas HUMMEL wrote: > On 10/24/2018 01:23 PM, Thomas Haller wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > An unmanaged device is in state "unmanaged". All other states (like > > "100 (connected)") are not-unmanaged, which means they are > > "managed". > > > > $ nmcli -f GENERAL.DEVICE,GENERAL.STATE device show > > $ nmcli -f GENERAL.DEVICE,GENERAL.STATE device show "$DEVICE" > > Hello, > > That's what I thought but on a previously discussed case of an > externally configured device, here's what I'm experiencing : > > > # nmcli -f GENERAL.DEVICE,GENERAL.STATE device show eth1 > GENERAL.DEVICE: eth1 > GENERAL.STATE: 30 (disconnected) > > > # ip addr show eth1 > 3: eth1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state > UP > group default qlen 1000 > link/ether 00:50:56:8a:42:bf brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff > > > # ip addr add 192.168.10.200/24 dev eth1 > > # nmcli -f GENERAL.DEVICE,GENERAL.STATE device show eth1 > GENERAL.DEVICE: eth1 > GENERAL.STATE: 100 (connected) > > But I thought we said that in such a case a profile would be > autocreated > (and autoconnected) but only to reflect that something is active but > which is not going to be managed (like for dhcp requests...) by NM ? > > Did I misunderstood ?
I wasn't very clear here, sorry. So, the device can be in state "unmanaged" and that's it. If you have a device not "unmanaged" (that is, any other state), and you externaly add IP configuration (like you did here), this is the case 3) from my earlier email. I said, in this case the device is not actively managed by NM, meaning, NM does not do anything with it. This is different from the proper "unmanaged" case. The device looks managed, but NM also doesn't mess with it. Let's call this "externally managed". Not sure that's helpful, but in NetworkManager source code it's called like that. In nmcli output, you cannot really distinguish a regular activated profile from such an externally managed one. Except, that in the latter case the profiles was autocreated and its name is the device name (eth1). best, Thomas
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