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NetworkManager ignore docker, virtualbox, and vmware adapters
[main]
plugins=ifupdown,keyfile
[ifupdown]
managed=false
[keyfile]
unmanaged-devices=interface-name:docker0;interface-name:vmnet1;interface-name:vmnet8;interface-name:vboxnet0
@dragon788
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Depending on the number of containers you have running there may also be numerous vethXXXXX devices as well. Does this support wildcards? If so it would be handy to do vmnet* as if you create more than the default NAT/bridge/host-only networks you will get more to ignore.

@szczad
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szczad commented Jan 25, 2018

@dragon788 Please see manpage for NetworkManager.conf, section "Device List Format"
It states clearly that:

   interface-name:IFNAME, interface-name:~IFNAME
      Case sensitive match of interface name of the device. Simple globbing is supported with * and ?. 
      Ranges and escaping is not supported.

  interface-name:=IFNAME
      Case sensitive match of interface name of the device. Globbing is disabled and IFNAME is taken literally.

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cuchac commented Jul 20, 2021

I used this line to ignore bridge interfaces as well and use wildcards:
unmanaged-devices=interface-name:docker*;interface-name:br-*;interface-name:vmnet*;interface-name:vboxnet*

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thinkawitch commented Aug 9, 2021

This tweak helped me with docker containers gets unavailable inside of vmware linux mint 20 (ubuntu 20.04) after pause/resume.
unmanaged-devices=interface-name:docker*;interface-name:veth*;interface-name:br-*;interface-name:vmnet*;interface-name:vboxnet*

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