On Sun, 2009-08-09 at 22:10 +0200, Dominik George wrote: > Hi list, > > are there plans for NetworkManager to support multiple VPNs > simultaneously? The applet currently only allows one VPN connection at a > time, I don't know if NM internally supports more.
It's been on the feature list for a while and should get implemented eventually. > Furthermore, NetworkManager really should honour manual entries in > /etc/resolv.conf so VPN management is posible with other software (NM > will override entries made by OpenVPN, etc. every now and then). Not really possible, because /etc/resolv.conf is simply not a canonical source. It's constructed (even when you're not using NM) from multiple sources of information; DHCP, PPP, VPNs, etc. The traditional method has been for every one of those services to copy resolv.conf to a backup file, replace it with the new information, and when the service goes away, some script copies the backup file back. resolvconf sort of helps this, but it still doesn't handle the case when one of those services fails to notify resolvconf that it's gone away. The point is that any custom entries need to be kept along with the actual configuration for that interface, so that when more than one thing wants to touch DNS information, the broker (NM) can handle it. Some distros use resolvconf underneath NM, but that doesn't really fix the problems that using resolvconf alone still has. Note that there is an openvpn plugin for NM that will probably work for you and handle this situation just fine. Dan _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list