-Overview

Introduction to libnm
Using libnm

-Introduction to libnm

- libnm is a client library for NetworkManager, the standard Linux network - management service. NetworkManager supports a wide variety of network - configuration scenarios, hardware devices and protocol families. Most of - the functionality is exposed on a - D-Bus API, - allowing other tools to use the functionality provided by NetworkManager. -

- libnm provides C language bindings for functionality provided by - NetworkManager, optionally useful from other language runtimes as well. -

- libnm maps fairly closely to the actual D-Bus API that NetworkManager - provides, wrapping the remote D-Bus objects as native GObjects, - mapping D-Bus signals and properties to GObject signals and properties, - and providing helpful accessor and utility functions. However, unlike - the old libnm-util/libnm-glib API, the mapping to the D-Bus API is not - exact, and various inconveniences and historical anomalies of the D-Bus - API are papered over. -

- The following is a rough overview of the libnm object structure and - how to use the various parts of it: -