Configuration

Description

The plugin could be used without any configuration. However, there is some interesting options that may help you. And IPv6 requires a little configuration. Some sample configuration can be found at Sample.
eth* could be either your ethernet interface or wireless ssid

Enable the plugin

Edit /etc/NetworkManager/nm-system-settings.conf and make it looks like:

[main]
plugins=ifnet,keyfile

Using IPv6

To enable IPv6 for the plugin, you should add
enable_ipv6_eth*=“true” to /etc/conf.d/net

AUTO IPv6

To use dhcp for IPv6, you should add “dhcp6” to config_eth* like
config_eth0=( “dhcp dhcp6” )

link_local IPv6 only requires you to enable IPv6 without dhcp6 or any IPv6 address specified

MANUAL IPV6

You should manually add your IPv6 addresses and routes information to /etc/conf.d/net.

Make your network interface unmanaged by NM


managed_eth=“false”
mac_eth=“xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx”

Other options

Enable auto refresh

To enable refreshing your network when you make change to network configuration files, you can add auto_refresh=true to /etc/NetworkManager/nm-system-settings.conf, like

[ifnet]
managed=true
auto_refresh=true

The default value of this option is false. Note that your network will be disconnected for a second in order to reconfigure the network if autorefresh is set to true and you make changes to the configuration files.

Don’t connect to network automatically when NetworkManager starts

Add auto_eth*=“false” to /etc/conf.d/net
The default value of this option is true

Disable the plugin

Modify /etc/NetworkManager/nm-system-settings.conf and set “managed” to false, like

[ifnet]
managed=false

The default value of this option is true