Add externally_managed property for NetworkInterfaces #1806
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Description
Adds a property to NetworkInterface to indicate that the interface is externally managed by the system administrator, and cannot be manipulated by labgrid. While RawNetworkInterfaceDriver has a similar flag, setting a flag at the driver level is suboptimal since not all instances of RawNetworkInterfaceDriver are guarenteed to correctly set that flag. As an example, if labgrid-client or a test script creates a RawNetworkInterfaceDriver ephemerally, it will reset the network interface configuration, much to the consternation of the system administrator.
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