[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#931419: Bug#931419: network-manager: Support for multiple wired networks is confusing

[Michael Biebl]

Am 04.07.19 um 16:14 schrieb Mark Brown:
> On Thu, Jul 04, 2019 at 03:59:59PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
>> Am 04.07.19 um 13:55 schrieb Mark Brown:
> 
>>> On a system with multiple wired networks Network Manager displays
>>> them separately (eg, in the system settings app I see two network
>>> connections listed with separate settings buttons and on/off
>>> toggles) but in actual fact there is only a single set of wired
>>> settings and toggling one connection on toggles other wired
>>> connections off.  Similar things happen when configuring via the
>>> system menu.
> 
>> Could you add a screenshot which highlights the problem you are seeing?
>> network-manager itself does not provide any GUI (only a CLI and TUI).
> 
> I actually see the same behaviour with the CLI and TUI as I do
> with the GNOME settings stuff - there's nothing obvious that
> suggests that the two connections are mutually exclusive (in the
> TUI they do both say "Wired Connection 1" but that's a child of
> the interface so those configs look like they're per-interface).
> AFAICT the exclusion is being enforced at the NM level and the
> clients are just passing through what they see through the APIs.
> 
> Anyway, I'm attaching an image showing the GNOME settings app.
> 

So you have two network interfaces but one connection profile?
Can you attach that connection profile (see
/etc/NetworkManager/system-connections)?
I still struggle to understand your problem tbh.

Michael

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