Bug 1628900

Summary:	[RFE] Allow to keep an interface link down
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8	Reporter:	Matteo Croce <mcroce>
Component:	NetworkManager	Assignee:	NetworkManager Development Team <nm-team>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Desktop QE <desktop-qa-list>
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Version:	8.4	CC:	acardace, atragler, bgalvani, fgiudici, lrintel, rkhan, sukulkar, supadhya, thaller, till, vbenes
Target Milestone:	rc	Keywords:	FutureFeature, Triaged
Target Release:	8.4
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Bug Blocks:	1333488, 1555001

Description Matteo Croce 2018-09-14 09:50:42 UTC

Description of problem:

NetworkManager always sets the link up after configuring an interface.
Some interfaces, like an Open vSwitch bridge with DPDK, needs to work with the link down.

Please add a feature to just configure the interface and keep the link down.
Obviously this will not be the default behaviour, eg. it could be connection.link which defaults to yes.

Regards,
Matteo Croce

Comment 2 Matteo Croce 2018-09-14 09:56:41 UTC

This RFE blocks bug 1555001 because it was requested by the initscripts maintainers to have feature parity between initscripts and NM.

Link to the initscripts pull request:

https://github.com/fedora-sysv/initscripts/pull/175

Comment 3 Thomas Haller 2018-09-14 10:23:38 UTC

> This RFE blocks bug 1555001 because it was requested by the initscripts 
> maintainers to have feature parity between initscripts and NM.

Note that feature parity may not be possible: bug 1589869.
There is no need to block bug 1555001 for this.

Comment 5 Thomas Haller 2018-11-15 15:42:38 UTC

An alternative/orthogonal solution for this could be bug 1650221: with that, you would just not create a profile in NM and the device would be automatically unmanaged and not touched.

Comment 6 Marcelo Ricardo Leitner 2019-07-03 15:11:13 UTC

Mass-moving bugs RHEL <= 7.6.0 to 7.7.0.
As we are past RFE deadline for 7.7.0 and we should have no new features on 7.8.0, please evaluate if it's still wanted on RHEL7 and contact PM for exception. You may also move it to RHEL8 if that's wanted. Thanks!

Comment 12 RHEL Program Management 2021-01-08 07:35:58 UTC

After evaluating this issue, there are no plans to address it further or fix it in an upcoming release.  Therefore, it is being closed.  If plans change such that this issue will be fixed in an upcoming release, then the bug can be reopened.