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Description
Summary
When creating a NM connection type vrf through the nmcli module with a table id the task is not idempotent.
Reason beeing seems to be that the nmcli module sets table but in nmcli it is saved as vrf.table:
nmcli connection show vrf_mgmt | grep table
...
vrf.table: 1001
Issue Type
Bug Report
Component Name
nmcli
Ansible Version
bash-5.1$ ansible --version
ansible [core 2.17.3]
config file = /home/mstinsky/ws/marc/ansible/control/ansible.cfg
configured module search path = ['/runner/.ansible/plugins/modules', '/usr/share/ansible/plugins/modules']
ansible python module location = /usr/local/lib/python3.12/site-packages/ansible
ansible collection location = /runner/.ansible/collections:/usr/share/ansible/collections
executable location = /usr/local/bin/ansible
python version = 3.12.5 (main, Apr 2 2025, 00:00:00) [GCC 11.5.0 20240719 (Red Hat 11.5.0-5)] (/usr/bin/python3.12)
jinja version = 3.1.6
libyaml = True
Community.general Version
bash-5.1$ ansible-galaxy collection list community.general
# /usr/share/ansible/collections/ansible_collections
Collection Version
----------------- -------
community.general 10.5.0
Configuration
OS / Environment
nmcli --version
nmcli tool, version 1.48.10-5.el9_5Steps to Reproduce
- name: mgmt_vrf | Create mgmt vrf
community.general.nmcli:
state: present
type: vrf
conn_name: vrf_mgmt
table: 1001
ifname: vrf_mgmt
method4: disabled
method6: disabledExpected Results
No changes after the task ran once.
Actual Results
Each task run shows the following change:
TASK [network : mgmt_vrf | Create mgmt vrf] ******************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************
--- before
+++ after
@@ -9,5 +9,5 @@
"ipv6.ignore-auto-dns": "no",
"ipv6.ignore-auto-routes": "no",
"ipv6.method": "disabled",
- "table": null
+ "table": "1001"
}
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