Folkert van Heusden wrote:
Package: network-manager Version: 0.6.6-2 Severity: normalcannot start vpn from commandline via network-manager I've got a vpn configured in network-manager. I can successfully start it from the network-manager gui. Now I would like to have it automatically started as soon as /etc/network/if-up.d/somescript is started. So what I do from that script is: su - folkert -c '/usr/local/sbin/NetworkManager.startvpn keetweej.vanheusden.com' where the /usr/local/sbin/NetworkManager.startvpn is just a python script that does: interface.activateVPNConnection() etc. (if you're interested, the script can be found here: http://blog.mithis.net/archives/ideas/51-nm-autovpn ) Now from what the comments tell me it only works with gutsy, not with feisty ubuntu. Now I checked but gutsy has an older network-manager than debian testing. Maybe some patch in ubuntu fixed it? I skimmed through their patch-list but could not find a relevant vpn-related fix.
You can only activate a NM vpn connection, if another NM, non-vpn connection is active, i.e. NM is in the online state.
You can't activate a NM vpn connection, if the the underlying connection e.g. is setup vi /etc/network/interfaces, simple as that.
Is this, what you are trying to do? Cheers, Michael -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
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