# no support for address-data or route-data in NetworkManager on balenaOS?

**URL:** <https://forums.balena.io/t/no-support-for-address-data-or-route-data-in-networkmanager-on-balenaos/372236>\
**Category:** General\
**Tags:** network\
**Created:** [October 8, 2024, 6:00pm UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/no-support-for-address-data-or-route-data-in-networkmanager-on-balenaos/372236 "2024-10-08T18:00:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![scscsc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/db5fbb/32.png) [@scscsc](https://forums.balena.io/u/scscsc)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2024, 6:00pm UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/no-support-for-address-data-or-route-data-in-networkmanager-on-balenaos/372236/1 "2024-10-08T18:00:35Z")

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NetworkManager docs recommend using the new vardict formatted `address-data` and `route-data` fields in `ipv4` and `ipv6` for NetworkManager \> v1.20, which is supported in the `keyfile` plugin (which balena uses).

balenaOS is on nmcli and NetworkManager 1.46.0, but when I try to use address-data I get:

> Error: invalid property ‘address-data’: ‘address-data’ not among [method, dns, dns-search, dns-options, dns-priority, addresses, gateway, routes, route-metric, route-table, routing-rules, replace-local-rule, ignore-auto-routes, ignore-auto-dns, dhcp-client-id, dhcp-iaid, dhcp-dscp, dhcp-timeout, dhcp-send-hostname, dhcp-hostname, dhcp-fqdn, dhcp-hostname-flags, never-default, may-fail, required-timeout, dad-timeout, dhcp-vendor-class-identifier, link-local, dhcp-reject-servers, auto-route-ext-gw].

Setting it manually in a system-connection file just results in an error on gateways because address-data was ignored:

> failed to load connection: invalid connection: ipv4.gateway: gateway cannot be set if there are no addresses configured

Any idea why balenaOS’s NetworkManager doesn’t support this?

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**Author:** ![cywang117](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/balena/user_avatar/forums.balena.io/cywang117/32/6307_2.png) [@cywang117](https://forums.balena.io/u/cywang117)\
**Post date:** [October 10, 2024, 11:07pm UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/no-support-for-address-data-or-route-data-in-networkmanager-on-balenaos/372236/2 "2024-10-10T23:07:51Z")

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Hey @scscsc , could you paste the NetworkManager config file that configures address-data, redacting any sensitive information please?