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NAME

       NetworkManager.conf - NetworkManager configuration file

SYNOPSIS

       /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf, /etc/NetworkManager/conf.d/name.conf,
       /run/NetworkManager/conf.d/name.conf, /usr/lib/NetworkManager/conf.d/name.conf,
       /var/lib/NetworkManager/NetworkManager-intern.conf

DESCRIPTION

       NetworkManager.conf is the configuration file for NetworkManager. It is used to set up
       various aspects of NetworkManager's behavior. The location of the main file and
       configuration directories may be changed through use of the --config, --config-dir,
       --system-config-dir, and --intern-config argument for NetworkManager, respectively.

       If a default NetworkManager.conf is provided by your distribution's packages, you should
       not modify it, since your changes may get overwritten by package updates. Instead, you can
       add additional .conf files to the /etc/NetworkManager/conf.d directory. These will be read
       in order, with later files overriding earlier ones. Packages might install further
       configuration snippets to /usr/lib/NetworkManager/conf.d. This directory is parsed first,
       even before NetworkManager.conf. Scripts can also put per-boot configuration into
       /run/NetworkManager/conf.d. This directory is parsed second, also before
       NetworkManager.conf. The loading of a file /run/NetworkManager/conf.d/name.conf can be
       prevented by adding a file /etc/NetworkManager/conf.d/name.conf. Likewise, a file
       /usr/lib/NetworkManager/conf.d/name.conf can be shadowed by putting a file of the same
       name to either /etc/NetworkManager/conf.d or /run/NetworkManager/conf.d.

       NetworkManager can overwrite certain user configuration options via D-Bus or other
       internal operations. In this case it writes those changes to
       /var/lib/NetworkManager/NetworkManager-intern.conf. This file is not intended to be
       modified by the user, but it is read last and can shadow user configuration from
       NetworkManager.conf.

       Certain settings from the configuration can be reloaded at runtime either by sending
       SIGHUP signal or via D-Bus' Reload call.

       NetworkManager does not require any configuration in NetworkManager.conf. Depending on
       your use case, you may remove all files to restore the default configuration (factory
       reset). But note that your distribution or other packages may drop configuration snippets
       for NetworkManager, such that they are part of the factory default.

FILE FORMAT

       The configuration file format is so-called key file (sort of ini-style format). It
       consists of sections (groups) of key-value pairs. Lines beginning with a '#' and blank
       lines are considered comments. Sections are started by a header line containing the
       section enclosed in '[' and ']', and ended implicitly by the start of the next section or
       the end of the file. Each key-value pair must be contained in a section.

       For keys that take a list of devices as their value, you can specify devices by their MAC
       addresses or interface names, or "*" to specify all devices. See the section called
       “Device List Format” below.

       A simple configuration file looks like this:

           [main]
           plugins=keyfile

       As an extension to the normal keyfile format, you can also append a value to a
       previously-set list-valued key by doing:

           plugins+=another-plugin
           plugins-=remove-me

MAIN SECTION

       plugins
           Lists system settings plugin names separated by ','. These plugins are used to read
           and write system-wide connection profiles. When multiple plugins are specified, the
           connections are read from all listed plugins. When writing connections, the plugins
           will be asked to save the connection in the order listed here; if the first plugin
           cannot write out that connection type (or can't write out any connections) the next
           plugin is tried, etc. If none of the plugins can save the connection, an error is
           returned to the user.

           The default value and the number of available plugins is distro-specific. See the
           section called “PLUGINS” below for the available plugins. Note that NetworkManager's
           native keyfile plugin is always appended to the end of this list (if it doesn't
           already appear earlier in the list).

       monitor-connection-files
           This setting is deprecated and has no effect. Profiles from disk are never
           automatically reloaded. Use for example nmcli connection (re)load for that.

       auth-polkit
           Whether the system uses PolicyKit for authorization. If true, non-root requests are
           authorized using PolicyKit. Requests from root (user ID zero) are always granted
           without asking PolicyKit. If false, all requests will be allowed and PolicyKit is not
           used. If set to root-only PolicyKit is not used and all requests except root are
           denied. The default value is true.

       dhcp
           This key sets up what DHCP client NetworkManager will use. Allowed values are
           dhclient, dhcpcd, and internal. The dhclient and dhcpcd options require the indicated
           clients to be installed. The internal option uses a built-in DHCP client which is not
           currently as featureful as the external clients.

           If this key is missing, it defaults to internal. If the chosen plugin is not
           available, clients are looked for in this order: dhclient, dhcpcd, internal.

       no-auto-default
           Specify devices for which NetworkManager shouldn't create default wired connection
           (Auto eth0). By default, NetworkManager creates a temporary wired connection for any
           Ethernet device that is managed and doesn't have a connection configured. List a
           device in this option to inhibit creating the default connection for the device. May
           have the special value * to apply to all devices.

           When the default wired connection is deleted or saved to a new persistent connection
           by a plugin, the device is added to a list in the file
           /var/lib/NetworkManager/no-auto-default.state to prevent creating the default
           connection for that device again.

           See the section called “Device List Format” for the syntax how to specify a device.

           Example:

               no-auto-default=00:22:68:5c:5d:c4,00:1e:65:ff:aa:ee
               no-auto-default=eth0,eth1
               no-auto-default=*

       ignore-carrier
           This setting is deprecated for the per-device setting ignore-carrier which overwrites
           this setting if specified (See ignore-carrier). Otherwise, it is a list of matches to
           specify for which device carrier should be ignored. See the section called “Device
           List Format” for the syntax how to specify a device. Note that master types like bond,
           bridge, and team ignore carrier by default. You can however revert that default using
           the "except:" specifier (or better, use the per-device setting instead of the
           deprecated setting).

       assume-ipv6ll-only
           Specify devices for which NetworkManager will try to generate a connection based on
           initial configuration when the device only has an IPv6 link-local address.

           See the section called “Device List Format” for the syntax how to specify a device.

       configure-and-quit
           This option is no longer useful to configure in NetworkManager.conf file. It can
           however also be configured on the command line with the same values, where it has some
           use.

           When set to 'initrd', NetworkManager does not connect to D-Bus and quits after
           configuring the network. This is an implementation detail how the NetworkManager
           module of dracut can run NetworkManager. An alternative to this is having
           NetworkManager as a systemd service with D-Bus in initrd.

           The value 'true' is unsupported since version 1.36. Previously this was a mode where
           NetworkManager would quit after configuring the network and run helper processes for
           DHCP and SLAAC.

           Otherwise, NetworkManager runs a system service with D-Bus and does not quit during
           normal operation.

       hostname-mode
           Set the management mode of the hostname. This parameter will affect only the transient
           hostname. If a valid static hostname is set, NetworkManager will skip the update of
           the hostname despite the value of this option. An hostname empty or equal to
           'localhost', 'localhost6', 'localhost.localdomain' or 'localhost6.localdomain' is
           considered invalid.

           default: NetworkManager will update the hostname with the one provided via DHCP or
           reverse DNS lookup of the IP address on the connection with the default route or on
           any connection with the property hostname.only-from-default set to 'false'.
           Connections are considered in order of increasing value of the hostname.priority
           property. In case multiple connections have the same priority, connections activated
           earlier are considered first. If no hostname can be determined in such way, the
           hostname will be updated to the last one set outside NetworkManager or to
           'localhost.localdomain'.

           dhcp: this is similar to 'default', with the difference that after trying to get the
           DHCP hostname, reverse DNS lookup is not done. Note that selecting this option is
           equivalent to setting the property 'hostname.from-dns-lookup' to 'false' globally for
           all connections in NetworkManager.conf.

           none: NetworkManager will not manage the transient hostname and will never set it.

       dns
           Set the DNS processing mode.

           If the key is unspecified, default is used, unless /etc/resolv.conf is a symlink to
           /run/systemd/resolve/stub-resolv.conf, /run/systemd/resolve/resolv.conf,
           /lib/systemd/resolv.conf or /usr/lib/systemd/resolv.conf. In that case,
           systemd-resolved is chosen automatically.

           default: NetworkManager will update /etc/resolv.conf to reflect the nameservers
           provided by currently active connections. The rc-manager setting (below) controls how
           this is done.

           dnsmasq: NetworkManager will run dnsmasq as a local caching nameserver, using
           "Conditional Forwarding" if you are connected to a VPN, and then update resolv.conf to
           point to the local nameserver. It is possible to pass custom options to the dnsmasq
           instance by adding them to files in the "/etc/NetworkManager/dnsmasq.d/" directory.
           Note that when multiple upstream servers are available, dnsmasq will initially contact
           them in parallel and then use the fastest to respond, probing again other servers
           after some time. This behavior can be modified passing the 'all-servers' or
           'strict-order' options to dnsmasq (see the manual page for more details).

           systemd-resolved: NetworkManager will push the DNS configuration to systemd-resolved

           none: NetworkManager will not modify resolv.conf. This implies rc-manager unmanaged

           Note that the plugins dnsmasq and systemd-resolved are caching local nameservers.
           Hence, when NetworkManager writes /run/NetworkManager/resolv.conf and /etc/resolv.conf
           (according to rc-manager setting below), the name server there will be localhost only.
           NetworkManager also writes a file /run/NetworkManager/no-stub-resolv.conf that
           contains the original name servers pushed to the DNS plugin.

           When using dnsmasq and systemd-resolved per-connection added dns servers will always
           be queried using the device the connection has been activated on.

       rc-manager
           Set the resolv.conf management mode. This option is about how NetworkManager writes to
           /etc/resolv.conf, if at all. The default value depends on NetworkManager build
           options, and this version of NetworkManager was build with a default of "". Regardless
           of this setting, NetworkManager will always write its version of resolv.conf to its
           runtime state directory as /run/NetworkManager/resolv.conf.

           If you configure dns=none or make /etc/resolv.conf immutable with chattr +i,
           NetworkManager will ignore this setting and always choose unmanaged (below).

           auto: if systemd-resolved plugin is configured via the dns setting or if it gets
           detected as main DNS plugin, NetworkManager will update systemd-resolved without
           touching /etc/resolv.conf. Alternatively, if resolvconf or netconfig are enabled at
           compile time and the respective binary is found, NetworkManager will automatically use
           it. Note that if you install or uninstall these binaries, you need to reload the
           rc-manager setting with SIGHUP or systemctl reload NetworkManager. As last fallback it
           uses the symlink option (see next).

           symlink: If /etc/resolv.conf is a regular file or does not exist, NetworkManager will
           write the file directly. If /etc/resolv.conf is instead a symlink, NetworkManager will
           leave it alone. Unless the symlink points to the internal file
           /run/NetworkManager/resolv.conf, in which case the symlink will be updated to emit an
           inotify notification. This allows the user to conveniently instruct NetworkManager not
           to manage /etc/resolv.conf by replacing it with a symlink.

           file: NetworkManager will write /etc/resolv.conf as regular file. If it finds a
           symlink to an existing target, it will follow the symlink and update the target
           instead. In no case will an existing symlink be replaced by a file. Note that older
           versions of NetworkManager behaved differently and would replace dangling symlinks
           with a plain file.

           resolvconf: NetworkManager will run resolvconf to update the DNS configuration.

           netconfig: NetworkManager will run netconfig to update the DNS configuration.

           unmanaged: don't touch /etc/resolv.conf.

           none: deprecated alias for symlink.

       systemd-resolved
           Send the connection DNS configuration to systemd-resolved. Defaults to "true".

           Note that this setting is complementary to the dns setting. You can keep this enabled
           while using dns set to another DNS plugin alongside systemd-resolved, or dns set to
           systemd-resolved to configure the system resolver to use systemd-resolved.

           If systemd-resolved is enabled, the connectivity check resolves the hostname
           per-device.

       debug
           Comma separated list of options to aid debugging. This value will be combined with the
           environment variable NM_DEBUG. Currently, the following values are supported:

           RLIMIT_CORE: set ulimit -c unlimited to write out core dumps. Beware, that a core dump
           can contain sensitive information such as passwords or configuration settings.

           fatal-warnings: set g_log_set_always_fatal() to core dump on warning messages from
           glib. This is equivalent to the --g-fatal-warnings command line option.

       autoconnect-retries-default
           The number of times a connection activation should be automatically tried before
           switching to another one. This value applies only to connections that can auto-connect
           and have a connection.autoconnect-retries property set to -1. If not specified,
           connections will be tried 4 times. Setting this value to 1 means to try activation
           once, without retry.

       slaves-order
           This key specifies in which order slave connections are auto-activated on boot or when
           the master activates them. Allowed values are name (order connection by interface
           name, the default), or index (order slaves by their kernel index).

       firewall-backend
           The firewall backend for configuring masquerading with shared mode. Set to either
           iptables, nftables or none.  iptables and nftables require iptables and nft
           application, respectively.  none means to skip firewall configuration if the users
           wish to manage firewall themselves. If unspecified, it will be auto detected.

       iwd-config-path
           If the value is "auto" (the default), IWD is queried for its current state directory
           when it appears on D-Bus -- the directory where IWD keeps its network configuration
           files -- usually /var/lib/iwd. NetworkManager will then attempt to write copies of new
           or modified Wi-Fi connection profiles, converted into the IWD format, into this
           directory thus making IWD connection properties editable. NM will overwrite existing
           files without preserving their contents.

           The path can also be overriden by pointing to a specific existing and writable
           directory. On the other hand setting this to an empty string or any other value
           disables the profile conversion mechanism.

           This mechanism allows editing connection profile settings such as the 802.1x
           configuration using NetworkManager clients. Without it such changes have no effect in
           IWD.

KEYFILE SECTION

       This section contains keyfile-plugin-specific options, and is normally only used when you
       are not using any other distro-specific plugin.

       hostname
           This key is deprecated and has no effect since the hostname is now stored in
           /etc/hostname or other system configuration files according to build options.

       path
           The location where keyfiles are read and stored. This defaults to
           "/etc/NetworkManager/system-connections".

       unmanaged-devices
           Set devices that should be ignored by NetworkManager.

           A device unmanaged due to this option is strictly unmanaged and cannot be overruled by
           using the API like nmcli device set $IFNAME managed yes. Also, a device that is
           unmanaged for other reasons, like an udev rule, cannot be made managed with this
           option (e.g. by using an except: specifier). These two points make it different from
           the device*.managed option which for that reason may be a better choice.

           See the section called “Device List Format” for the syntax on how to specify a device.

           Example:

               unmanaged-devices=interface-name:em4
               unmanaged-devices=mac:00:22:68:1c:59:b1;mac:00:1E:65:30:D1:C4;interface-name:eth2

IFUPDOWN SECTION

       This section contains ifupdown-specific options and thus only has effect when using the
       ifupdown plugin.

       managed
           If set to true, then interfaces listed in /etc/network/interfaces are managed by
           NetworkManager. If set to false, then any interface listed in /etc/network/interfaces
           will be ignored by NetworkManager. Remember that NetworkManager controls the default
           route, so because the interface is ignored, NetworkManager may assign the default
           route to some other interface.

           The default value is false.

LOGGING SECTION

       This section controls NetworkManager's logging. Logging is very important to understand
       what NetworkManager is doing. When you report a bug, do not unnecessarily filter or limit
       the log file. Just enable level=TRACE and domains=ALL to collect everything.

       The recommended way for enabling logging is with a file
       /etc/NetworkManager/conf.d/95-logging.conf that contains

           [logging]
           level=TRACE
           domains=ALL

       and restart the daemon with systemctl restart NetworkManager. Then reproduce the problem.
       You can find the logs in syslog (for example journalctl).

       Any settings here are overridden by the --log-level and --log-domains command-line
       options. Logging can also be reconfigured at runtime with nmcli general logging level
       "$LEVEL" domains "$DOMAINS". However, often it is interesting to get a complete log from
       the start. Especially, when debugging an issue, enable debug logging in
       NetworkManager.conf and restart the service to enable verbose logging early on.

       By setting nm.debug on the kernel command line (either from
       /run/NetworkManager/proc-cmdline or /proc/cmdline), debug logging is enabled. This
       overrides both the command-line options and the settings from NetworkManager.conf.

       NetworkManager's logging aims not to contain private sensitive data and you should be fine
       sharing the debug logs. Still, there will be IP addresses and your network setup, if you
       consider that private then review the log before sharing. However, try not to mangle the
       logfile in a way that distorts the meaning too much.

       NetworkManager uses syslog or systemd-journald, depending on configuration. In any case,
       debug logs are verbose and might be rate limited or filtered by the logging daemon. For
       systemd-journald, see RateLimitIntervalSec and RateLimitBurst in journald.conf manual for
       how to disable that.

       level
           The default logging verbosity level. One of OFF, ERR, WARN, INFO, DEBUG, TRACE, in
           order of verbosity.

           OFF disables all logging.  INFO is the default verbosity for regular operation.  TRACE
           is for debugging.

           The other levels are in most cases not useful. For example, DEBUG is between TRACE and
           INFO, but it's too verbose for regular operation and lacks possibly interesting
           messages for debugging. Almost always, when debugging an issue or reporting a bug,
           collect full level TRACE logs to get the full picture.

       domains
           Filter the messages by their topic. When debugging an issue, it's better to collect
           all logs (ALL domain) upfront. The unnecessary parts can always be ignored later.

           In the uncommon case to tune out certain topics, the following log domains are
           available: PLATFORM, RFKILL, ETHER, WIFI, BT, MB, DHCP4, DHCP6, PPP, WIFI_SCAN, IP4,
           IP6, AUTOIP4, DNS, VPN, SHARING, SUPPLICANT, AGENTS, SETTINGS, SUSPEND, CORE, DEVICE,
           OLPC, WIMAX, INFINIBAND, FIREWALL, ADSL, BOND, VLAN, BRIDGE, DBUS_PROPS, TEAM,
           CONCHECK, DCB, DISPATCH, AUDIT, SYSTEMD, VPN_PLUGIN, PROXY.

           In addition, these special domains can be used: NONE, ALL, DEFAULT, DHCP, IP.

           You can specify per-domain log level overrides by adding a colon and a log level to
           any domain. E.g., "WIFI:DEBUG,WIFI_SCAN:OFF". Another example is ALL,VPN_PLUGIN:TRACE
           to enable all the logging there is (see about VPN_PLUGIN below).

           Domain descriptions:
               PLATFORM    : OS (platform) operations
               RFKILL      : RFKill subsystem operations
               ETHER       : Ethernet device operations
               WIFI        : Wi-Fi device operations
               BT          : Bluetooth operations
               MB          : Mobile broadband operations
               DHCP4       : DHCP for IPv4
               DHCP6       : DHCP for IPv6
               PPP         : Point-to-point protocol operations
               WIFI_SCAN   : Wi-Fi scanning operations
               IP4         : IPv4-related operations
               IP6         : IPv6-related operations
               AUTOIP4     : AutoIP operations
               DNS         : Domain Name System related operations
               VPN         : Virtual Private Network connections and operations
               SHARING     : Connection sharing. With TRACE level log queries for dnsmasq
               instance
               SUPPLICANT  : WPA supplicant related operations
               AGENTS      : Secret agents operations and communication
               SETTINGS    : Settings/config service operations
               SUSPEND     : Suspend/resume
               CORE        : Core daemon and policy operations
               DEVICE      : Activation and general interface operations
               OLPC        : OLPC Mesh device operations
               WIMAX       : WiMAX device operations
               INFINIBAND  : InfiniBand device operations
               FIREWALL    : FirewallD related operations
               ADSL        : ADSL device operations
               BOND        : Bonding operations
               VLAN        : VLAN operations
               BRIDGE      : Bridging operations
               DBUS_PROPS  : D-Bus property changes
               TEAM        : Teaming operations
               CONCHECK    : Connectivity check
               DCB         : Data Center Bridging (DCB) operations
               DISPATCH    : Dispatcher scripts
               AUDIT       : Audit records
               SYSTEMD     : Messages from internal libsystemd
               VPN_PLUGIN  : logging messages from VPN plugins
               PROXY       : logging messages for proxy handling

               NONE        : when given by itself logging is disabled
               ALL         : all log domains
               DEFAULT     : default log domains
               DHCP        : shortcut for "DHCP4,DHCP6"
               IP          : shortcut for "IP4,IP6"

               HW          : deprecated alias for "PLATFORM"

           In general, the logfile should not contain passwords or private data. However, you are
           always advised to check the file before posting it online or attaching to a bug
           report.  VPN_PLUGIN is special as it might reveal private information of the VPN
           plugins with verbose levels. Therefore this domain will be excluded when setting ALL
           or DEFAULT to more verbose levels then INFO.

       backend
           The logging backend. Supported values are "syslog" and "journal". When NetworkManager
           is started with "--debug" in addition all messages will be printed to stderr. If
           unspecified, the default is "journal".

       audit
           Whether the audit records are delivered to auditd, the audit daemon. If false, audit
           records will be sent only to the NetworkManager logging system. If set to true, they
           will be also sent to auditd. The default value is true.

CONNECTION SECTION

       Specify default values for connections.

       Such default values are only consulted if the corresponding per-connection property
       explicitly allows for that. That means, all these properties correspond to a property of
       the connection profile (for example connection.mud-url). Only if the per-profile property
       is set to a special value that indicates to use the default, the default value from
       NetworkManager.conf is consulted. It depends on the property, which is the special value
       that indicates fallback to the default, but it usually is something like empty, unset
       values or special numeric values like 0 or -1. That means the effectively used value can
       first always be configured for each profile, and these default values only matter if the
       per-profile values explicitly indicates to use the default from NetworkManager.conf.

       Example:

           [connection]
           ipv6.ip6-privacy=0

   Supported Properties
       Not all properties can be overwritten, only the following properties are supported to have
       their default values configured (see nm-settings(5) for details).

       802-1x.auth-timeout

       cdma.mtu

       connection.auth-retries
           If left unspecified, the default value is 3 tries before failing the connection.

       connection.autoconnect-slaves

       connection.mud-url
           If unspecified, MUD URL defaults to "none".

       connection.lldp

       connection.llmnr
           If unspecified, the ultimate default values depends on the DNS plugin. With
           systemd-resolved the default currently is "yes" (2) and for all other plugins "no"
           (0).

       connection.mdns
           If unspecified, the ultimate default values depends on the DNS plugin. With
           systemd-resolved the default currently is "no" (0) and for all other plugins also "no"
           (0).

       connection.mptcp-flags
           If unspecified, the fallback is 0x22 ("enabled,subflow"). Note that if sysctl
           /proc/sys/net/mptcp/enabled is disabled, NetworkManager will still not configure
           endpoints.

       connection.dns-over-tls
           If unspecified, the ultimate default values depends on the DNS plugin. With
           systemd-resolved the default currently is global setting and for all other plugins
           "no" (0).

       connection.stable-id

       ethernet.cloned-mac-address
           If left unspecified, it defaults to "preserve".

       ethernet.generate-mac-address-mask

       ethernet.mtu
           If configured explicitly to 0, the MTU is not reconfigured during device activation
           unless it is required due to IPv6 constraints. If left unspecified, a DHCP/IPv6 SLAAC
           provided value is used or the MTU is not reconfigured during activation.

       ethernet.wake-on-lan

       gsm.mtu

       hostname.from-dhcp

       hostname.from-dns-lookup

       hostname.only-from-default

       hostname.priority

       infiniband.mtu
           If configured explicitly to 0, the MTU is not reconfigured during device activation
           unless it is required due to IPv6 constraints. If left unspecified, a DHCP/IPv6 SLAAC
           provided value is used or the MTU is left unspecified on activation.

       ip-tunnel.mtu
           If configured explicitly to 0, the MTU is not reconfigured during device activation
           unless it is required due to IPv6 constraints. If left unspecified, a DHCP/IPv6 SLAAC
           provided value is used or a default of 1500.

       ipv4.dad-timeout

       ipv4.dhcp-client-id

       ipv4.dhcp-iaid
           If left unspecified, it defaults to "ifname".

       ipv4.dhcp-hostname-flags
           If left unspecified, the value 3 (fqdn-encoded,fqdn-serv-update) is used.

       ipv4.dhcp-timeout
           If left unspecified, the default value for the interface type is used.

       ipv4.dhcp-vendor-class-identifier
           If left unspecified, the default is to not send the DHCP option to the server.

       ipv4.dns-priority
           If unspecified or zero, use 50 for VPN profiles and 100 for other profiles.

       ipv4.required-timeout

       ipv4.link-local
           If left unspecified, fallback to "auto" which makes it dependent on "ipv4.method"
           setting.

       ipv4.route-metric

       ipv4.route-table
           If left unspecified, routes are only added to the main table. Note that this is
           different from explicitly selecting the main table 254, because of how NetworkManager
           removes extraneous routes from the tables.

       ipv6.addr-gen-mode
           If the per-profile setting is either "default" or "default-or-eui64", the global
           default is used. If the default is unspecified, the fallback value is either
           "stable-privacy" or "eui64", depending on whether the per-profile setting is "default"
           or "default-or-eui64, respectively.

       ipv6.ra-timeout
           If left unspecified, the default value depends on the sysctl solicitation settings.

       ipv6.dhcp-duid
           If left unspecified, it defaults to "lease".

       ipv6.dhcp-iaid
           If left unspecified, it defaults to "ifname".

       ipv6.dhcp-hostname-flags
           If left unspecified, the value 1 (fqdn-serv-update) is used.

       ipv6.dhcp-timeout
           If left unspecified, the default value for the interface type is used.

       ipv6.dns-priority
           If unspecified or zero, use 50 for VPN profiles and 100 for other profiles.

       ipv6.ip6-privacy
           If ipv6.ip6-privacy is unset, use the content of
           "/proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/default/use_tempaddr" as last fallback.

       ipv6.required-timeout

       ipv6.route-metric

       ipv6.route-table
           If left unspecified, routes are only added to the main table. Note that this is
           different from explicitly selecting the main table 254, because of how NetworkManager
           removes extraneous routes from the tables.

       loopback.mtu
           If configured explicitly to 0, the MTU is not reconfigured during device activation
           unless it is required due to IPv6 constraints. If left unspecified, a DHCP/IPv6 SLAAC
           provided value is used or the MTU is left unspecified on activation.

       sriov.autoprobe-drivers
           If left unspecified, drivers are autoprobed when the SR-IOV VF gets created.

       vpn.timeout
           If left unspecified, default value of 60 seconds is used.

       wifi.ap-isolation
           If left unspecified, AP isolation is disabled.

       wifi.cloned-mac-address
           If left unspecified, it defaults to "preserve".

       wifi.generate-mac-address-mask

       wifi.mac-address-randomization
           If left unspecified, MAC address randomization is disabled. This setting is deprecated
           for wifi.cloned-mac-address.

       wifi.mtu
           If configured explicitly to 0, the MTU is not reconfigured during device activation
           unless it is required due to IPv6 constraints. If left unspecified, a DHCP/IPv6 SLAAC
           provided value is used or a default of 1500.

       wifi.powersave
           If left unspecified, the default value "ignore" will be used.

       wifi-sec.pmf
           If left unspecified, the default value "optional" will be used.

       wifi-sec.fils
           If left unspecified, the default value "optional" will be used.

       wifi.wake-on-wlan

       wireguard.mtu

   Sections
       You can configure multiple connection sections, by having different sections with a name
       that all start with "connection". Example:

           [connection]
           ipv6.ip6-privacy=0
           connection.autoconnect-slaves=1
           vpn.timeout=120

           [connection-wifi-wlan0]
           match-device=interface-name:wlan0
           ipv4.route-metric=50

           [connection-wifi-other]
           match-device=type:wifi
           ipv4.route-metric=55
           ipv6.ip6-privacy=1

       The sections within one file are considered in order of appearance, with the exception
       that the [connection] section is always considered last. In the example above, this order
       is [connection-wifi-wlan0], [connection-wlan-other], and [connection]. When checking for a
       default configuration value, the sections are searched until the requested value is found.
       In the example above, "ipv4.route-metric" for wlan0 interface is set to 50, and for all
       other Wi-Fi typed interfaces to 55. Also, Wi-Fi devices would have IPv6 private addresses
       enabled by default, but other devices would have it disabled. Note that also "wlan0" gets
       "ipv6.ip6-privacy=1", because although the section "[connection-wifi-wlan0]" matches the
       device, it does not contain that property and the search continues.

       When having different sections in multiple files, sections from files that are read later
       have higher priority. So within one file the priority of the sections is top-to-bottom.
       Across multiple files later definitions take precedence.

       The following properties further control how a connection section applies.

       match-device
           An optional device spec that restricts when the section applies. See the section
           called “Device List Format” for the possible values.

       stop-match
           An optional boolean value which defaults to no. If the section matches (based on
           match-device), further sections will not be considered even if the property in
           question is not present. In the example above, if [connection-wifi-wlan0] would have
           stop-match set to yes, the device wlan0 would have ipv6.ip6-privacy property
           unspecified. That is, the search for the property would not continue in the connection
           sections [connection-wifi-other] or [connection].

DEVICE SECTION

       Contains per-device persistent configuration.

       Example:

           [device]
           match-device=interface-name:eth3
           managed=1

   Supported Properties
       The following properties can be configured per-device.

       managed
           Whether the device is managed or not. A device can be marked as managed via udev rules
           (ENV{NM_UNMANAGED}), or via setting plugins (keyfile.unmanaged-devices). This is yet
           another way. Note that this configuration can be overruled at runtime via D-Bus. Also,
           it has higher priority then udev rules.

       carrier-wait-timeout
           Specify the timeout for waiting for carrier in milliseconds. The default is 5000
           milliseconds. This setting exists because certain drivers/hardware can take a long
           time to detect whether the cable is plugged in.

           When the device loses carrier, NetworkManager does not react immediately. Instead, it
           waits for this timeout before considering the link lost.

           Also, on startup, NetworkManager considers the device as busy for this time, as long
           as the device has no carrier. This delays startup-complete signal and
           NetworkManager-wait-online. Configuring this too high means to block
           NetworkManager-wait-online longer than necessary when booting with cable unplugged.
           Configuring it too low, means that NetworkManager will declare startup-complete too
           soon, although carrier is about to come and auto-activation to kick in. Note that if a
           profile only has static IP configuration or Layer 3 configuration disabled, then it
           can already autoconnect without carrier on the device. Once such a profile reaches
           full activated state, startup-complete is considered as reached even if the device has
           no carrier yet.

       ignore-carrier
           Specify devices for which NetworkManager will (partially) ignore the carrier state.
           Normally, for device types that support carrier-detect, such as Ethernet and
           InfiniBand, NetworkManager will only allow a connection to be activated on the device
           if carrier is present (ie, a cable is plugged in), and it will deactivate the device
           if carrier drops for more than a few seconds.

           A device with carrier ignored will allow activating connections on that device even
           when it does not have carrier, provided that the connection uses only
           statically-configured IP addresses. Additionally, it will allow any active connection
           (whether static or dynamic) to remain active on the device when carrier is lost.

           Note that the "carrier" property of NMDevices and device D-Bus interfaces will still
           reflect the actual device state; it's just that NetworkManager will not make use of
           that information.

           Master types like bond, bridge and team ignore carrier by default, while other device
           types react on carrier changes by default.

           This setting overwrites the deprecated main.ignore-carrier setting above.

       keep-configuration
           On startup, NetworkManager tries to not interfere with interfaces that are already
           configured. It does so by generating a in-memory connection based on the interface
           current configuration.

           If this generated connection matches one of the existing persistent connections, the
           persistent connection gets activated. If there is no match, the generated connection
           gets activated as "external", which means that the connection is considered as active,
           but NetworkManager doesn't actually touch the interface.

           It is possible to disable this behavior by setting keep-configuration to no. In this
           way, on startup NetworkManager always tries to activate the most suitable persistent
           connection (the one with highest autoconnect-priority or, in case of a tie, the one
           activated most recently).

           Note that when NetworkManager gets restarted, it stores the previous state in
           /run/NetworkManager; in particular it saves the UUID of the connection that was
           previously active so that it can be activated again after the restart. Therefore,
           keep-configuration does not have any effect on service restart.

       allowed-connections
           A list of connections that can be activated on the device. See the section called
           “Connection List Format” for the syntax to specify a connection. If this option is not
           specified, all connections can be potentially activated on the device, provided that
           the connection type and other settings match.

           A notable use case for this is to filter which connections can be activated based on
           how they were created; see the origin keyword in the section called “Connection List
           Format”.

       wifi.scan-rand-mac-address
           Configures MAC address randomization of a Wi-Fi device during scanning. This defaults
           to yes in which case a random, locally-administered MAC address will be used. The
           setting wifi.scan-generate-mac-address-mask allows to influence the generated MAC
           address to use certain vendor OUIs. If disabled, the MAC address during scanning is
           left unchanged to whatever is configured. For the configured MAC address while the
           device is associated, see instead the per-connection setting wifi.cloned-mac-address.

       wifi.backend
           Specify the Wi-Fi backend used for the device. Currently, supported are wpa_supplicant
           and iwd (experimental). If unspecified, the default is "wpa_supplicant".

       wifi.scan-generate-mac-address-mask
           Like the per-connection settings ethernet.generate-mac-address-mask and
           wifi.generate-mac-address-mask, this allows to configure the generated MAC addresses
           during scanning. See nm-settings(5) for details.

       wifi.iwd.autoconnect
           If wifi.backend is iwd, setting this to false forces IWD's autoconnect mechanism to be
           disabled for this device and connections will only be initiated by NetworkManager
           whether commanded by a client or automatically. Leaving it true (default) stops
           NetworkManager from automatically initiating connections and allows IWD to use its
           network ranking and scanning logic to decide the best networks to autoconnect to next.
           Connections' autoconnect-priority, autoconnect-retries settings will be ignored. Other
           settings like permissions or multi-connect may interfere with IWD connection attempts.

       sriov-num-vfs
           Specify the number of virtual functions (VF) to enable for a PCI physical device that
           supports single-root I/O virtualization (SR-IOV).

   Sections
       The [device] section works the same as the [connection] section. That is, multiple
       sections that all start with the prefix "device" can be specified. The settings
       "match-device" and "stop-match" are available to match a device section on a device. The
       order of multiple sections is also top-down within the file and later files overwrite
       previous settings. See “Sections” under the section called “CONNECTION SECTION” for
       details.

CONNECTIVITY SECTION

       This section controls NetworkManager's optional connectivity checking functionality. This
       allows NetworkManager to detect whether or not the system can actually access the internet
       or whether it is behind a captive portal.

       Connectivity checking serves two purposes. For one, it exposes a connectivity state on
       D-Bus, which other applications may use. For example, Gnome's portal helper uses this as
       signal to show a captive portal login page. The other use is that default-route of devices
       without global connectivity get a penalty of +20000 to the route-metric. This has the
       purpose to give a better default-route to devices that have global connectivity. For
       example, when being connected to WWAN and to a Wi-Fi network which is behind a captive
       portal, WWAN still gets preferred until login.

       Note that your distribution might set /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/*/rp_filter to strict
       filtering. That works badly with per-device connectivity checking, which uses
       SO_BINDDEVICE to send requests on all devices. A strict rp_filter setting will reject any
       response and the connectivity check on all but the best route will fail.

       enabled
           Whether connectivity check is enabled. Note that to enable connectivity check, a valid
           uri must also be configured. The value defaults to true, but since the uri is unset by
           default, connectivity check may be disabled. The main purpose of this option is to
           have a single flag to disable connectivity check. Note that this setting can also be
           set via D-Bus API at runtime. In that case, the value gets stored in
           /var/lib/NetworkManager/NetworkManager-intern.conf file.

       uri
           The URI of a web page to periodically request when connectivity is being checked. This
           page should return the header "X-NetworkManager-Status" with a value of "online".
           Alternatively, its body content should be set to "NetworkManager is online". The body
           content check can be controlled by the response option. If this option is blank or
           missing, connectivity checking is disabled.

       interval
           Specified in seconds; controls how often connectivity is checked when a network
           connection exists. If set to 0 connectivity checking is disabled. If missing, the
           default is 300 seconds.

       response
           If set, controls what body content NetworkManager checks for when requesting the URI
           for connectivity checking. Note that this only compares that the HTTP response starts
           with the specifid text, it does not compare the exact string. This behavior might
           change in the future, so avoid relying on it. If missing, the response defaults to
           "NetworkManager is online". If set to empty, the HTTP server is expected to answer
           with status code 204 or send no data.

GLOBAL-DNS SECTION

       This section specifies DNS settings that are applied globally, in addition to
       connection-specific ones.

       searches
           A list of search domains to be used during hostname lookup.

       options
           A list of options to be passed to the hostname resolver.

GLOBAL-DNS-DOMAIN SECTIONS

       Sections with a name starting with the "global-dns-domain-" prefix allow to define global
       DNS configuration for specific domains. The part of section name after
       "global-dns-domain-" specifies the domain name a section applies to (for example, a
       section could be named "global-dns-domain-foobar.com"). More specific domains have the
       precedence over less specific ones and the default domain is represented by the wildcard
       "*". To be valid, global DNS domains must include a section for the default domain "*".
       When the global DNS domains are valid, the name servers and domains defined globally
       override the ones from active connections.

       servers
           A list of addresses of DNS servers to be used for the given domain.

       options
           A list of domain-specific DNS options. Not used at the moment.

.CONFIG SECTIONS

       This is a special section that contains options which apply to the configuration file that
       contains the option.

       enable
           Defaults to "true". If "false", the configuration file will be skipped during loading.
           Note that the main configuration file NetworkManager.conf cannot be disabled.

               # always skip loading the config file
               [.config]
               enable=false

           You can also match against the version of NetworkManager. For example the following
           are valid configurations:

               # only load on version 1.0.6
               [.config]
               enable=nm-version:1.0.6

               # load on all versions 1.0.x, but not 1.2.x
               [.config]
               enable=nm-version:1.0

               # only load on versions >= 1.1.6. This does not match
               # with version 1.2.0 or 1.4.4. Only the last digit is considered.
               [.config]
               enable=nm-version-min:1.1.6

               # only load on versions >= 1.2. Contrary to the previous
               # example, this also matches with 1.2.0, 1.2.10, 1.4.4, etc.
               [.config]
               enable=nm-version-min:1.2

               # Match against the maximum allowed version. The example matches
               # versions 1.2.0, 1.2.2, 1.2.4. Again, only the last version digit
               # is allowed to be smaller. So this would not match on 1.1.10.
               [.config]
               enable=nm-version-max:1.2.6

           You can also match against the value of the environment variable NM_CONFIG_ENABLE_TAG,
           like:

               # always skip loading the file when running NetworkManager with
               # environment variable "NM_CONFIG_ENABLE_TAG=TAG1"
               [.config]
               enable=env:TAG1

           More then one match can be specified. The configuration will be enabled if one of the
           predicates matches ("or"). The special prefix "except:" can be used to negate the
           match. Note that if one except-predicate matches, the entire configuration will be
           disabled. In other words, a except predicate always wins over other predicates. If the
           setting only consists of "except:" matches and none of the negative conditions are
           satisfied, the configuration is still enabled.

               # enable the configuration either when the environment variable
               # is present or the version is at least 1.2.0.
               [.config]
               enable=env:TAG2,nm-version-min:1.2

               # enable the configuration for version >= 1.2.0, but disable
               # it when the environment variable is set to "TAG3"
               [.config]
               enable=except:env:TAG3,nm-version-min:1.2

               # enable the configuration on >= 1.3, >= 1.2.6, and >= 1.0.16.
               # Useful if a certain feature is only present since those releases.
               [.config]
               enable=nm-version-min:1.3,nm-version-min:1.2.6,nm-version-min:1.0.16

PLUGINS

       Settings plugins for reading and writing connection profiles. The number of available
       plugins is distribution specific.

       keyfile
           The keyfile plugin is the generic plugin that supports all the connection types and
           capabilities that NetworkManager has. It writes files out in an .ini-style format in
           /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections. See nm-settings-keyfile(5) for details about
           the file format.

           The stored connection file may contain passwords, secrets and private keys in plain
           text, so it will be made readable only to root, and the plugin will ignore files that
           are readable or writable by any user or group other than root. See "Secret flag types"
           in nm-settings(5) for how to avoid storing passwords in plain text.

           This plugin is always active, and will automatically be used to store any connections
           that aren't supported by any other active plugin.

       ifcfg-rh
           This plugin is used on the Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux distributions to read
           and write configuration from the standard /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-*
           files. It currently supports reading Ethernet, Wi-Fi, InfiniBand, VLAN, Bond, Bridge,
           and Team connections. Enabling ifcfg-rh implicitly enables ibft plugin, if it is
           available. This can be disabled by adding no-ibft. See
           /usr/share/doc/initscripts/sysconfig.txt and nm-settings-ifcfg-rh(5) for more
           information about the ifcfg file format.

       ifupdown
           This plugin is used on the Debian and Ubuntu distributions, and reads Ethernet and
           Wi-Fi connections from /etc/network/interfaces.

           This plugin is read-only; any connections (of any type) added from within
           NetworkManager when you are using this plugin will be saved using the keyfile plugin
           instead.

       ibft, no-ibft
           These plugins are deprecated and their selection has no effect. This is now handled by
           nm-initrd-generator.

       ifcfg-suse, ifnet
           These plugins are deprecated and their selection has no effect. The keyfile plugin
           should be used instead.

APPENDIX

   Device List Format
       The configuration options main.no-auto-default, main.ignore-carrier,
       keyfile.unmanaged-devices, connection*.match-device and device*.match-device select
       devices based on a list of matchings. Devices can be specified using the following format:

       *
           Matches every device.

       IFNAME
           Case sensitive match of interface name of the device. Globbing is not supported.

       HWADDR
           Match the permanent MAC address of the device. Globbing is not supported

       interface-name:IFNAME, interface-name:~IFNAME
           Case sensitive match of interface name of the device. Simple globbing is supported
           with * and ?. Ranges and escaping is not supported.

       interface-name:=IFNAME
           Case sensitive match of interface name of the device. Globbing is disabled and IFNAME
           is taken literally.

       mac:HWADDR
           Match the permanent MAC address of the device. Globbing is not supported

       s390-subchannels:HWADDR
           Match the device based on the subchannel address. Globbing is not supported

       type:TYPE
           Match the device type. Valid type names are as reported by "nmcli -f GENERAL.TYPE
           device show". Globbing is not supported.

       driver:DRIVER
           Match the device driver as reported by "nmcli -f GENERAL.DRIVER,GENERAL.DRIVER-VERSION
           device show". "DRIVER" must match the driver name exactly and does not support
           globbing. Optionally, a driver version may be specified separated by '/'. Globbing is
           supported for the version.

       dhcp-plugin:DHCP
           Match the configured DHCP plugin "main.dhcp".

       except:SPEC
           Negative match of a device.  SPEC must be explicitly qualified with a prefix such as
           interface-name:. A negative match has higher priority then the positive matches above.

           If there is a list consisting only of negative matches, the behavior is the same as if
           there is also match-all. That means, if none of all the negative matches is satisfied,
           the overall result is still a positive match. That means, "except:interface-name:eth0"
           is the same as "*,except:interface-name:eth0".

       SPEC[,;]SPEC
           Multiple specs can be concatenated with commas or semicolons. The order does not
           matter as matches are either inclusive or negative (except:), with negative matches
           having higher priority.

           Backslash is supported to escape the separators ';' and ',', and to express special
           characters such as newline ('\n'), tabulator ('\t'), whitespace ('\s') and backslash
           ('\\'). The globbing of interface names cannot be escaped. Whitespace is not a
           separator but will be trimmed between two specs (unless escaped as '\s').

       Example:

           interface-name:em4
           mac:00:22:68:1c:59:b1;mac:00:1E:65:30:D1:C4;interface-name:eth2
           interface-name:vboxnet*,except:interface-name:vboxnet2
           *,except:mac:00:22:68:1c:59:b1

   Connection List Format
       Connections can be specified using the following format:

       *
           Matches every connection.

       uuid:UUID
           Match the connection by UUID, for example "uuid:83037490-1d17-4986-a397-01f1db3a7fc2"

       id=ID
           Match the connection by name.

       origin:ORIGIN
           Match the connection by origin, stored in the org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.origin
           tag of the user setting. For example, use "except:origin:nm-initrd-generator" to
           forbid activation of connections created by the initrd generator.

       except:SPEC
           Negative match of a connection. A negative match has higher priority then the positive
           matches above.

           If there is a list consisting only of negative matches, the behavior is the same as if
           there is also match-all. That means, if none of all the negative matches is satisfied,
           the overall result is still a positive match.

       SPEC[,;]SPEC
           Multiple specs can be concatenated with commas or semicolons. The order does not
           matter as matches are either inclusive or negative (except:), with negative matches
           having higher priority.

           Backslash is supported to escape the separators ';' and ',', and to express special
           characters such as newline ('\n'), tabulator ('\t'), whitespace ('\s') and backslash
           ('\\'). Whitespace is not a separator but will be trimmed between two specs (unless
           escaped as '\s').

SEE ALSO

       NetworkManager(8), nmcli(1), nmcli-examples(7), nm-online(1), nm-settings(5), nm-
       applet(1), nm-connection-editor(1)