all: make "ipv6.addr-gen-mode" configurable by global default
It can be useful to choose a different "ipv6.addr-gen-mode". And it can be useful to override the default for a set of profiles. For example, in cloud or in a data center, stable-privacy might not be the best choice. Add a mechanism to override the default via global defaults in NetworkManager.conf: # /etc/NetworkManager/conf.d/90-ipv6-addr-gen-mode-override.conf [connection-90-ipv6-addr-gen-mode-override] match-device=type:ethernet ipv6.addr-gen-mode=0 "ipv6.addr-gen-mode" is a special property, because its default depends on the component that configures the profile. - when read from disk (keyfile and ifcfg-rh), a missing addr-gen-mode key means to default to "eui64". - when configured via D-Bus, a missing addr-gen-mode property means to default to "stable-privacy". - libnm's ip6-config::addr-gen-mode property defaults to "stable-privacy". - when some tool creates a profile, they either can explicitly set the mode, or they get the default of the underlying mechanisms above. - nm-initrd-generator explicitly sets "eui64" for profiles it creates. - nmcli doesn' explicitly set it, but inherits the default form libnm's ip6-config::addr-gen-mode. - when NM creates a auto-default-connection for ethernet ("Wired connection 1"), it inherits the default from libnm's ip6-config::addr-gen-mode. Global connection defaults only take effect when the per-profile value is set to a special default/unset value. To account for the different cases above, we add two such special values: "default" and "default-or-eui64". That's something we didn't do before, but it seams useful and easy to understand. Also, this neatly expresses the current behaviors we already have. E.g. if you don't specify the "addr-gen-mode" in a keyfile, "default-or-eui64" is a pretty clear thing. Note that usually we cannot change default values, in particular not for libnm's properties. That is because we don't serialize the default values to D-Bus/keyfile, so if we change the default, we change behavior. Here we change from "stable-privacy" to "default" and from "eui64" to "default-or-eui64". That means, the user only experiences a change in behavior, if they have a ".conf" file that overrides the default. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1743161 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2082682 See-also: https://github.com/coreos/fedora-coreos-tracker/issues/907 !1213