Top-level (ppp) connection management over MM

[colin.helliwell at ln-systems.com]

Thanks Aleksander,
I've been able to get a slimmed-down [gui-less] NetworkManager building for my platform this morning - just getting to grips with using it now...
Looks like it will provide and/or simplify much of the control I'm looking for.

-----Original Message-----
From: ModemManager-devel [mailto:modemmanager-devel-bounces at lists.freedesktop.org] On Behalf Of Aleksander Morgado
Sent: 08 February 2017 17:37
To: colin.helliwell at ln-systems.com; 'ModemManager (development)' <modemmanager-devel at lists.freedesktop.org>
Subject: Re: Top-level (ppp) connection management over MM

On 08/02/17 16:55, colin.helliwell at ln-systems.com wrote:
> One thing I've picked up whilst reading about MM is that although it 
> can set the modem into data mode, it doesn't take care of any of the 
> PPP side of things - this is the responsibility of 'elsewhere'?  I'm 
> trying to figure out whether there's anything off-the-shelf that can be used for this role?
> Presumably something that has the ability to control & monitor pppd, 
> and also able to control and monitor the modem via MM.
> 
> Should I be looking to use MM with something like NetworkManager, or 
> other [write my own]?  (I did look at Connman but that appears to need 
> oFono, which I've found to be near-unusably undocumented - I suspect 
> Intel open source the code, but not their docs..)
> 
>  
> 
> This is a headless system (is NetworkManager 'usable' like this?); the 
> 3G ppp link is needed to be brought up/down depending on other system 
> criteria e.g. if the Ethernet's broadband router, or even the ISP, 
> falls over. I'd like something as light n simple as possible, albeit 
> the system has udev, DBus and probably systemd.
> 
> Any recommendations.? Ta!

NetworkManager is the obvious choice, because it already has all the integration required to make ModemManager work, and supports setting up all 3 different connection methods that MM may require (PPP, static, dhcp).

If you only need one of those methods, though, you may find it easier to just setup a script that runs mmcli --simple-connect and then launch PPP on the interface specified in the bearer info (e.g. mmcli -b 0). Right now using mmcli in scripts is not very friendly, though, as the output it generates is pretty-printed for humans, not for machines, although it isn't impossible to parse.

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