Networkd-dispatcher is a dispatcher daemon for systemd-networkd connection status changes. This daemon is similar to NetworkManager-dispatcher, but is much more limited in the types of events it supports due to the limited nature of systemd-networkd.

Desired actions (scripts) are placed into directories that reflect systemd-networkd operational states, and are executed when the daemon receives the relevant event from systemd-networkd.

The deamon listens for signals from systemd-networkd over dbus, so it should be very light on resources (e.g. no polling). It is meant to be run as a system-wide daemon (as root). This allows it to be used for tasks such as starting a VPN after a connection is established.

The deamon expects that scripts are 1) executable and 2) owned by root (gid = uid = 0), and will not execute scripts that are otherwise.

Scripts can be installed into these directories under /etc/networkd-dispatcher:

routable.d/

dormant.d/

no-carrier.d/

off.d/

networkd-dispatcher will execute any valid scripts in the directory that reflects the new state.

Scripts are executed in the alpha-numeric order in which they are named, starting with 0 and ending with z. For example, a script named 50runme would run before 99runmenext.

Scripts are executed with some environment variables set. Some of these variables may not be set or may be set to an empty value, dependent upon the type of event. These can be used by scripts to conditionally take action based on a specific interface, state, etc.

• IFACE - interface that triggered the event

• STATE - The destination state change for which a script is currently being invoked. May be any of the values listed as valid for AdministrativeState or OperationalState.

• ESSID - for wlan connections, the ESSID the device is connected to

• ADDR - the ipv4 address of the device

• IP_ADDRS - space-delimited string of ipv4 address(es) assigned to the device (see note below)

• IP6_ADDRS - space-delimited string of ipv6 address(es) assigned to the device (see note below)

• AdministrativeState - One of pending, configuring, configured, unmanaged, failed or linger.

• OperationalState - One of off, no-carrier, dormant, carrier, degraded or routable. (Note that hooks are not invoked for changes into carrier or degraded).

• json - A JSON encoding of this program's interpretation of networkctl status "$IFACE", when the event is one for which such information is available; for debug logs or inspection with JSON-aware tools such as jq. Exact structure details are implementation-defined and liable to change.

*Note: For IP_ADDRS and IP6_ADDRS, the space-delimited string can be read into a BASH array like this:

read -r -a ip_addrs <<<"$IP_ADDRS"

usage: networkd-dispatcher [-h] [-S SCRIPT_DIR] [-T] [-v] [-q]

networkd dispatcher daemon

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -S SCRIPT_DIR, --script-dir SCRIPT_DIR
                        Location under which to look for scripts [default:
                        /etc/networkd-dispatcher]
  -T, --run-startup-triggers
                        Generate events reflecting preexisting state and
                        behavior on startup [default: False]
  -v, --verbose         Increment verbosity level once per call
  -q, --quiet           Decrement verbosity level once per call

Some further notes:

• The intended use case of --run-startup-triggers is race-condition avoidance: Ensuring that triggers are belatedly run even if networkd-dispatcher is invoked after systemd-networkd has already started an interface.
• The default log level is WARNING. Each use of -v will increment the log level (towards INFO or DEBUG), and each use of -q will decrement it (towards ERROR or CRITICAL).

There is an included systemd service file, networkd-dispatcher.service, which can be used to run networkd-dispatcher as a service. To specify command line options for the service, add them to a variable networkd_dispatcher_args in /etc/conf.d/networkd-dispatcher.conf. A template conf file is included.

This package can be installed from AUR.

Requirements:

• >= python 3.4

• python-gobject

• python-dbus

• wireless_tools

Copy networkd-dispatcher to /usr/bin.

Create the appropriate directory structure:

$ sudo mkdir -p /etc/networkd-dispatcher/{routable,dormant,no-carrier,off}.d

Install networkd-dispatcher.conf to /etc/conf.d.

Install networkd-dispatcher.service and start it. If networkd-dispatcher was not copied to /usr/bin, then edit service file to reflect the appropriate path.

• craftyguy (Clayton Craft)

• charles-dyfis-net (Charles Duffy)

A large portion of the code was leveraged from networkd-notify, which was written by wavexx (Yuri D'Elia)