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We have encountered multiple incidents where users face connectivity issues after booting, particularly due to hardware like switches that do not pass traffic for a few seconds after startup. And services such as NFS fail to mount because they try to initiate before the network is fully reachable. Therefore, we are supporting `connection.ip-ping-addresses` and `connection.ip-ping-timeout` to allow administrators to configure the network to verify connectivity to a specific target(such as a service like NFS) instead of relying on gateway reachability, which may not always be relevant in certain network configurations. Resolves: https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-21160 https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/-/merge_requests/2034 https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager-ci/-/merge_requests/1797