diff --git a/src/settings/plugins/ifcfg-rh/nms-ifcfg-rh-plugin.c b/src/settings/plugins/ifcfg-rh/nms-ifcfg-rh-plugin.c
index 4a8708652..da0920ef7 100644
--- a/src/settings/plugins/ifcfg-rh/nms-ifcfg-rh-plugin.c
+++ b/src/settings/plugins/ifcfg-rh/nms-ifcfg-rh-plugin.c
@@ -679,15 +679,16 @@ add_connection (NMSettingsPlugin *config,
 {
 	SettingsPluginIfcfg *self = SETTINGS_PLUGIN_IFCFG (config);
 	gs_free char *path = NULL;
+	gs_unref_object NMConnection *reread = NULL;
 
 	if (save_to_disk) {
-		if (!nms_ifcfg_rh_writer_write_connection (connection, IFCFG_DIR, NULL, &path, NULL, NULL, error))
+		if (!nms_ifcfg_rh_writer_write_connection (connection, IFCFG_DIR, NULL, &path, &reread, NULL, error))
 			return NULL;
 	} else {
 		if (!nms_ifcfg_rh_writer_can_write_connection (connection, error))
 			return NULL;
 	}
-	return NM_SETTINGS_CONNECTION (update_connection (self, connection, path, NULL, FALSE, NULL, error));
+	return NM_SETTINGS_CONNECTION (update_connection (self, reread ?: connection, path, NULL, FALSE, NULL, error));
 }
 
 static void
diff --git a/src/settings/plugins/ifcfg-rh/nms-ifcfg-rh-writer.c b/src/settings/plugins/ifcfg-rh/nms-ifcfg-rh-writer.c
index 98201524d..a8b47469c 100644
--- a/src/settings/plugins/ifcfg-rh/nms-ifcfg-rh-writer.c
+++ b/src/settings/plugins/ifcfg-rh/nms-ifcfg-rh-writer.c
@@ -3094,15 +3094,24 @@ nms_ifcfg_rh_writer_write_connection (NMConnection *connection,
 	 * A better solution might be, to re-read the connection only based on the
 	 * in-memory representation of what we collected above. But the reader
 	 * does not yet allow to inject the configuration. */
-	if (   (out_reread || out_reread_same)
-	    && !do_write_reread (connection,
-	                         svFileGetName (ifcfg),
-	                         out_reread,
-	                         out_reread_same,
-	                         &local)) {
-		_LOGW ("write: failure to re-read connection \"%s\": %s",
-		       svFileGetName (ifcfg), local->message);
-		g_clear_error (&local);
+	if (out_reread || out_reread_same) {
+		if (!do_write_reread (connection,
+		                         svFileGetName (ifcfg),
+		                         out_reread,
+		                         out_reread_same,
+		                         &local)) {
+			_LOGW ("write: failure to re-read connection \"%s\": %s",
+			       svFileGetName (ifcfg), local->message);
+			g_clear_error (&local);
+		} else {
+			if (   out_reread_same
+			    && !*out_reread_same) {
+				_LOGD ("write: connection %s (%s) was modified by persisting it to \"%s\" ",
+				       nm_connection_get_id (connection),
+				       nm_connection_get_uuid (connection),
+				       svFileGetName (ifcfg));
+			}
+		}
 	}
 
 	/* Only return the filename if this was a newly written ifcfg */