Article Summary:

This article will explain NetworkManager’s new offline mode and how can it be useful, along with a quick introduction to how NetworkManager stores its connection profiles.

Article Description:

• Explain how nmcli conn add works (dbus)
• Explain why using nmcli is preferable to editing the config files directly (input validation)
• Demo creating a connection profile with nmcli conn add
• Demo creating a connection profile with nmcli’s new --offline parameter and highlight some cases where this new flag can be especially useful (kickstarts).

https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/new-in-networkmanager-nmcli-offline-mode/44711