= Proposed System Wide Change: NetworkManager Bonding Support = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/NetworkManagerBonding Change owner(s): Dan Williams <dcbw at redhat dot com>, Pavel Šimerda <psimerda at redhat dot com> NetworkManager should be able to configure bond master interfaces with commonly used options and recognize their existing configuration on startup without disrupting their operation. == Detailed description == NetworkManager's existing support for bond interfaces covers a limited number of use-cases and can conflict with existing bonding configurations created by tools like libvirt. The purpose of this Fedora feature is to implement more flexible bonding infrastructure in NetworkManager to support an expanded number of use-cases and to be more cooperative with other users of bonding. Support will be added to NetworkManager to detect the existing configuration of a bond interface and its slaves and to seamless "take over" that connection without disrupting it. Even if the existing configuration is not backed by ifcfg files on-disk, NetworkManager will leave that configuration on the interface unless told to change it by the user via GUI or CLI tools. Additional bond interface configuration will be added to expand the use-cases and hardware that NetworkManager can configure (eg primary, use_carrier, xmit_hash_policy, etc). == Scope == Proposal owners: development, dcbw Other developers: This feature requires changes to nm-applet (done), nm- connection-editor (done), gnome-shell, gnome-control-center (in-progress) and KDE counterparts to expose bond interfaces and their connection information in the user interface. NetworkManager also needs updates to implement the proposed changes (mostly done). This Change Proposal has been communicated with Wrangler before the Submission deadline. _______________________________________________ devel-announce mailing list devel-announce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel-announce -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
