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Bug 644370 - Provide suggestions for connection MAC address locking
Provide suggestions for connection MAC address locking
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: NetworkManager
Classification: Platform
Component: nm-applet
0.8.x
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: Dan Williams
Dan Williams
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2011-03-10 03:22 UTC by Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre
Modified: 2012-08-20 12:07 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---

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mockup (87.02 KB, image/png)
2011-03-10 03:22 UTC, Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre 		Details

Description Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre 2011-03-10 03:22:08 UTC 
NM allows locking a connection to a device's MAC address, but expects the user to enter it. Since this would only work on devices detected by NM anyway, it was suggested to provide value suggestions.

Attached is the user-provided mockup. I think it makes sense, however perhaps it could mention the interface name, with mac address in parens?
Comment 1 Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre 2011-03-10 03:22:58 UTC 
Created attachment 183040 [details]
mockup
Comment 2 Dan Williams 2011-03-15 05:11:05 UTC 
Yeah, that's basically what we want here.  We could use a the GTK editiable combo box perhaps?  The dropdown would list devices of the type we're interested in.  Of course this would imply that NMConnectionList creates an NMClient object in it's private data and passes that to the NMConnectionEditor when it's created, so that the edit windows can access the device list and grab the MAC and interface name out of it.  That's not too hard though.  Want to have a go at the patch?
Comment 3 Jiri Klimes 2012-08-20 12:07:46 UTC 
Implemented quite a while already: a5b87782d833868faa1f5cb67969c3df39e05361