OSMC network start scripts

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I would like to completely clean the osmc of any network activity at start. I know it uses connman, but disabling connman through systemctl is not enough. Which scripts control network configurations at start? Thanks you

I have been struggling to get vpn support to work. After discovering connman’s sparse documentation, I switched to network manager. Unistalling osmc’s network package also removes the rbp2 device package, but unistall is the only way to stop connman from starting that I know of.

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What about

sudo systemctl disable connman.sevice

?

If that still doesn’t work (it might get started on demand via dbus name) then you can mask the service:

That will definitely, 100% disable it. You do not want to uninstall the package as this will try to uninstall the device package which will cause you a world of hurt next time you run updates…

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I have tried that. A script must be starting connman I assume. There should be just a couple network scripts that I don’t know of to stop osmc’s network functions. Thanks for the input, I will look into the info you provided

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Try:

sudo ln -s /dev/null /etc/systemd/system/connman.service
sudo systemctl daemon-reload

There won’t be a script starting connman as such, it will be dbus activation, most likely when the OSMC networking addon loads in the background.

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BTW, what were the original issues you were having with VPN that prompted you to disable connman ?

I’m guessing the lack of ifup.d script support makes it difficult to add the firewall and routing rules that are necessary ?

We’re looking at adding ifup.d support to connman fairly soon to address this issue.

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Thanks! connman service is no longer starting at boot. Is there any other network services that could conflict with network manager, I know you guys dont actually support it, would appreciate the info.

In regards to the connman problems, I am not too advanced of a linux user. I rely on decent documentation, and I have been having a difficult time finding it for connman. I got a working vpn config to show up in my connmanctl services, but couldnt get it to start.