[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] restarting network-manager from the command-line

[Tzafrir Cohen]

Hi,

Is this the place to ask about NetworkManager in Debian?

I'm not sure if it's worth a bug report (in Debian, or Upstream), but
the command-line interface of Network-Manager is rather lacking.

If I want to do the equivalent of 'ifdown eth0; ifup eth0', I can't
theoretically do that, because nmcli will not allow me to take an
"interface" up or down. Even though an interface may come down. And when
it comes up, a connection starts automatically in many cases.

In practice, I can normally tell what connectoin name I want (though it
may require extra lookup).

So the command line I have is:

  nmcli con down id 'Wired connection 1'; nmcli con up id 'Wired connection 1'

76 character, 14 words. Compared to 22 characters and 4 words above.


Is this considered a problem?

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