Hi,

it seems that on the yocto buily the vendor of my box provides (haven't really started customizing this)
both NetworkManager as well as systemd-networkd are installed. This seems to be bad.

I could find /etc/systemd/network, but this only contained an empty 99-default.link symlink to /dev/null
The directories /usr/lib/systemd and /run/systemd both exist, but both don't contain any "network" directory.

Same with the /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections

Strangely I have two connections configured: "Wired connection 1" and "Wired connection 2" which I however don't find any occurence in any of the files on my system (Except log-files, which mention them) ... are these configured per default? And if yes ... is systemd-networkd or NetworkManager defining them?

I think I'll probably go down the route of removing NetworkManager from the box ... having both seems to be dangerous and the systemd appears to be more in-line with the modern way oft hings (even if it might not be as powerful yet)

Chris


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Von: Nicolas Jeker <n.jeker@...>
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 4. August 2021 09:05
An: Christofer Dutz <christofer.dutz@...>; yocto@...
Betreff: Re: [yocto] (Go) Library for configuring Yocto based boxes?

On Mon, 2021-08-02 at 11:32 +0000, Christofer Dutz wrote:

Hi all,

so I guess this is another case of "I should have posed my question
earlier, than I would have found the soltion myself" ;-)

So it turns out that:

                                err =
propertyConnection.Update(connectionSettings)

Only updates the settings, however it doesn't actiavate the changes
(This happens on the next boot) ... But if I also run

                                _, err =
nm.ActivateConnection(propertyConnection, device, nil)

The changes seem to be applied instantly :-)

Glad to hear it works.

So I guess I'm now safe and managed to get the things I needed working.

I had a look and NetworkManager doesn't seem to be running, I can find
a process systemd-networkd however, so I guess everything is setup
correctly. I also used the nmcli to experiment.

Do I understand it correctly, is systemd-networkd a different
implementation of the same service as NetworkManager? Because I can
see the configs beeing written to "/etc/NetworkManager/system-connections"?

This doesn't sound correct. It's already some time ago that I last worked on networking. As far as I remember, systemd-networkd and NetworkManager are working differently:

Configuration files
-------------------
systemd-networkd uses *.network files in /usr/lib/systemd/network, /run/systemd/network and /etc/systemd/network

NetworkManager uses *.nm-connection files in /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections (and maybe others that I'm not aware of)

Command line utility
--------------------

systemd-networkd can be controlled with networkctl NetworkManager can be controlled with nmcli


I'm not sure why your setup even works, maybe I'm missing something.
For further reading I can recommend the ArchWiki pages (they don't always apply perfectly to Yocto, but it's close enough and very
detailed) and the respective man pages:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Systemd-networkd
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NetworkManager
https://man.archlinux.org/man/systemd-networkd.8
https://man.archlinux.org/man/extra/networkmanager/NetworkManager.8.en

Chris



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Von: Nicolas Jeker <n.jeker@...>
Gesendet: Montag, 2. August 2021 13:18
An: Christofer Dutz <christofer.dutz@...>;
yocto@...
Betreff: Re: [yocto] (Go) Library for configuring Yocto based boxes?

On Mon, 2021-08-02 at 09:35 +0000, Christofer Dutz wrote:

Hi all,

so I invested quite some time to using the NetworkManager to
configure the network settings.
I’m using a go library: github.com/Wifx/gonetworkmanager for this.
My network configurations now end up in a directory
/etc/NetworkManager/system-connections (I can see files with the
name "{connection-id}.nmconnection"
However the changes aren't applied. If I run:

     systemctl restart systemd-networkd

systemd-networkd and NetworkManager are two different things. Make
sure that you only have one of them running at the same time.

A quick solution is to use systemd to disable the systemd-networkd
service (if that's not already the case). What I did as a more long-
term solution is removing systemd-networkd in my distro.conf (works in
local.conf, too):

PACKAGECONFIG_remove_pn-systemd = "networkd"

The network settings don't change (Both network devices were set to
DHCP). (By the way … where can I see the default configuration?)

I'm currently using nmcli to set my configuration and apply it with:

nmcli con up {connection-id}

This works for me even if the connection status is already "up". Not
sure if it works when you replace the configuration file, but you
might give it a try. Otherwise restarting NetworkManager should work:

systemctl restart NetworkManager

However if I reboot the box, I can see my changes applied ... until
I run the "systemctl restart systemd-networkd" again, because then
it switches back to the dhcp settings.

I suspect this happens because systemd-networkd "overrides" the
interface configuration that was set by NetworkManager.

Any tips on how I can apply my changes without rebooting?
 
Chris


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Von: Nicolas Jeker <n.jeker@...>
Gesendet: Freitag, 30. Juli 2021 10:06
An: Christofer Dutz <christofer.dutz@...>;
yocto@...
Betreff: Re: [yocto] (Go) Library for configuring Yocto based boxes?

On Fri, 2021-07-30 at 07:43 +0000, Christofer Dutz wrote:

Hi all,
 
I’m very new to the Yocto world.
 
We are currently working on migrating away from OpenWRT based edge
devices towards ones that we now have Yocto builds for.
 
All seems to be working nicely on the yocto side.
 
Our application uses a baseline configuration in order to connect
to our cloud service and there it fetches it’s configuration
(We’ve got a cellular fallback if connectivity doesn’t work at
all).
 
With OpenWRT there was a tool called UCI which even had a Go
wrapper which we used to apply the configuration to the box (set
IP addresses, connect to WiFi neworks, configure the serial ports
etc.)
 
Is there some equivalent in the Yocto world?
 

The OpenWRT wiki has a section on porting UCI to different linux
distributions [1], but you can probably skip that completely.
Searching for UCI in the recipe index [2] yields a result from the
meta-openwrt [3] layer. I would start with adding that layer and
using the UCI recipe from there.

[1]: https://openwrt.org/docs/techref/uci#usage_outside_of_openwrt
[2]:
https://layers.openembedded.org/layerindex/branch/master/recipes/?q=
uc
i
[3]: https://github.com/kraj/meta-openwrt

I would like to avoid generating the file content in the /etc
directory by hand and firing „restart“ commands to the
corresponding services, if there isn’t a better way.
 
Help greatly appreciated :-)
 
Chris