New in NetworkManager: nmcli offline mode

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[Posted on behalf of Lubomir Rintel]

Article Summary:

This article will explain NetworkManager’s new offline mode and how can it be useful, along with a quick introduction to how NetworkManager stores its connection profiles.

Article Description:

  • explain how nmcli conn add works (dbus)
  • explain why using nmcli is preferable to editing the config files directly (input validation)
  • demo creating a connection profile with nmcli conn add
  • demo creating a connection profile with nmcli’s new --offline parameter and highlight some cases where this new flag can be especially useful (kickstarts).
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@lkundrak, your article looks good to me. +1 :slightly_smiling_face:

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@lkundrak I agree with @glb, +1 from me, as well.

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