Bug#1109667: g_network_monitor_can_reach() returns unreachable on a BGP router

[Andy Smith]

Hi,

On Tue, Jul 22, 2025 at 12:55:31PM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote:
> A configuration option in fwupd.conf(5) to ignore network reachability and
> try to download firmware regardless might also be a reasonable upstream
> feature request for fwupd. It documents IgnorePower and IgnoreRequirements,
> but there doesn't seem to be an option like IgnoreNetworkMonitor.

Just to note that the recent fwupd 2.0.14 release added a feature to
ignore network reachability detection by means of setting the
environment variable FWUPD_IGNORE_NETWORK_REACHABLE. This package is now
available in sid.

I added an override to the fwupd.service file like:

[Service]
Environment="FWUPD_IGNORE_NETWORK_REACHABLE=1"

and restarted it, After this, issuing

# fwupdmgr refresh

still failed with a message about there being a network reachability
problem. However,

# FWUPD_IGNORE_NETWORK_REACHABLE=1 fwupdmgr refresh

*did* work. I remain unsure if both programs require to run with this
environment, but that functionality *does* now seem to be present in the
fwupd package.

Thanks,
Andy