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This page serves as a central hub for all topics related to Network Manager discussions with Comcast-Sky-LGI-Infosys and the RDKM team.


Friday 10 October 2025 MoM and action items

Attendees:  Brian Chow, Karunakaran Amirthalingam, Ajith James, Bijal Shah, Yuri Pasquali, Grzegorz Sobolewski, Franciszek Koltuniuk, Madhavan Valliyammal Rajeswaran, Farhan Mahmood


  1. setHostName api ( to allow setting DHCP host name): It would be a good idea to add an optional parameter to allow flushing the DHCP cache so that DHCP host name change become effective immediately. <ActionItem> Brian to check if it can be done through GNOME network manager involving DHCP lease renewal without resulting in IP address change. 
  2. LG/Infosys have some STB deployments where the OpCo's requires us to disable 2.4GHz freq for QoE reasons. We would like to discuss how we can bring this as part of GNOME NM thunder plugin. <ActionItem> Brian to check if this is possible in a standard way using wpa_supplicant and if we can expose a property/method in network manager thunder plugin to achieve it. And property/method shall allow enabling/disabling of all possible wifi bands e.g 2.4GHZ, 5 GHZ, 6GHZ.
  3. Discussion about if we have can have some way to manage Bandsteering configurations as part of GNOME NM thunder plugin. Main ask from Liberty/Infosys was how we can give preference to 5GHZ as compared to 2.4GHZ. As per Brian and Karuna this is the standard behavior of wpa_supplicant. So no extra functionality is required to support this. <ActionItem> Franciszek and Madhavan to confirm if we have any other requirement for which band steering configuration is required.

  4. Currently passphrase is stored in clear on an encrypted storage. For better security shall it not be stored in encrypted form so that if any attacker is able to enter the system he cannot read it. <ActionItem> Karuna reckoned that there is GNOME network manager configuration that shall result in storing passphrase in hashed form. Karuna to check and come back.

We also agreed to have a follow up session on Friday 17 October 2025 to discuss above action items and wifi diagnostics.