On Thu, 2009-07-23 at 02:51 +0400, Юрий Аполлов wrote: > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Юрий Аполлов <[email protected]> > Date: 2009/7/23 > Subject: Re: PPTP connection: NM chooses wrong default route > To: Andreas Winkelbauer <[email protected]> > > > > > 2009/7/22 Andreas Winkelbauer <[email protected]> > > > Hi, > > I am currently using NM 0.7.1 on Fedora 11. I have the > following NM packages installed: > > $ rpm -qa | grep -i networkmanager > NetworkManager-openconnect-0.7.0.99-5.fc11.x86_64 > NetworkManager-openvpn-0.7.0.99-1.fc11.x86_64 > NetworkManager-pptp-0.7.0.99-1.fc11.x86_64 > NetworkManager-vpnc-0.7.0.99-1.fc11.x86_64 > NetworkManager-glib-0.7.1-4.git20090414.fc11.x86_64 > NetworkManager-devel-0.7.1-4.git20090414.fc11.x86_64 > NetworkManager-glib-devel-0.7.1-4.git20090414.fc11.x86_64 > NetworkManager-0.7.1-4.git20090414.fc11.x86_64 > NetworkManager-gnome-0.7.1-4.git20090414.fc11.x86_64 > > I setup a PPTP connection using NM to be able to access the > internet via a LAN connection at my University. The PPTP > connection itself works, but I can't access the internet, > because NM still uses eth0 for the default route instead of > switching over to ppp0. > > All addresses are automatically assigned via DHCP and I did > not setup any static, manually configured, routes. > > After executing su -c 'ip route replace default dev ppp0' > everything works fine, except connection drops due to > suboptimum MTU settings (so I usually also run su -c 'ifconfig > ppp0 mtu 1416' or something similar). > > Of course I can run these two commands after connecting to > PPTP using NM, but this is rather cumbersome. Is there > anything I can do to tell (or force) NM to use the PPTP > connection, ppp0, as default route? > > In general I think it would be very useful for any kind of > connection in NM to have some means of choosing it as default > route. Furthermore configurable MTU settings would be helpful > too. The things should probably go into a advanced settings > dialog. > > BTW: If I create the connection in a terminal (e.g. by running > "pptpsetup --create uni --server $SERVER --username $USERNAME > --password $PASSWORD --start && ip route replace default dev > ppp0") everything works nicely. > > Any help is highly appreciated! > > Bye, > Andi > _______________________________________________ > NetworkManager-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list > Guess you have to check "Use only for resourses of this network" in > your eth0 connection. if I'm not mistaken, it'll send all your traffic > not to internal netwok via ppp0
Actuall the other way around, he probably needs to *un*check that box. The default behavior is to route everything over the VPN. Dan _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
