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Thomas Haller authored
The need for this is the following: "ipv4.dhcp-client-id" can be specified via global connection defaults. In absence of any configuration in NetworkManager, the default depends on the DHCP client plugin. In case of "dhclient", the default further depends on /etc/dhcp. For "internal" plugin, we may very well want to change the default client-id to "mac" by universally installing a configuration snippet [connection-use-mac-client-id] ipv4.dhcp-client-id=mac However, if we the user happens to enable "dhclient" plugin, this also forces the client-id and overrules configuration from /etc/dhcp. The real problem is, that dhclient can be configured via means outside of NetworkManager, so our defaults shall not overwrite defaults from /etc/dhcp. With the new device spec, we can avoid this issue: [connection-dhcp-client-id] match-device=except:dhcp-plugin:dhclient ipv4.dhcp-client-id=mac This will be part of the solution for rh#1640494. Note that merely dropping a configuration snippet is not yet enough. More fixes for DHCP will follow. Also, bug rh#1640494 may have alternative solutions as well. The nice part of this new feature is that it is generally useful for configuring connection defaults and not specifically for the client-id issue. Note that this match spec is per-device, although the plugin is selected globally. That makes some sense, because in the future we may or may not configure the DHCP plugin per-device or per address family. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1640494
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