On Thu, 2010-04-08 at 17:15 -0700, Dan Williams wrote: > On Tue, 2010-04-06 at 22:01 +0000, Alessandro Bono wrote: > > On Tue, 06 Apr 2010 09:25:44 -0700, Dan Williams wrote: > > > > > On Tue, 2010-04-06 at 10:05 -0600, Scott Serr wrote: > > >> I have an openvpn config file that works fine with openvpn. (ubuntu > > >> lucid beta) As far as I can tell there is no way to create a like > > >> config in the nm openvpn editor. I can make one somewhat similar and > > >> export, but it doesn't look enough like mine to work. > > > > > > Which options? > > > > Hi Dan > > > > this is my (short) list of missing options/features > > > > - support for external dhcp on the server side, normally I configure > > openvpn server to push only data that I can't provide via dhcp server. So > > ip/mask/dns is taken from dhcp and additional route from openvpn > > This configuration works perfectly for windows machine, on certain > > customer I have a dedicated openvpn only for me because I can't use > > "normal" openvpn configuration :-( > > Yeah, we need support for this internally. Right now we pretty much > assume a tunnel approach, not TAP. It's not that hard to fix that I > guess; but in general the real fix for this would be helped by some of > the activation changes that I'd like to do to fix the PPPoE issues that > people currently have. > > > - support for multiple remote server > > Yeah; the trick there is going to be pulling out the IP of the current > server and using that to update the routing table, since we have to add > a host route to the VPN server over the underlying hardware interface. > Maybe that already works just fine for multi-server case, not sure.
I was talking about one openvpn server with multiple ip, with openvpn you can use "remote" several times or even better support for <connection>, but also multiple vpn concurrently is an interesting case > > Dan > > > > > > > > > Dan > > > > > >> I've tried importing/exporting a tweaking, but the wizard thing just > > >> isn't flexible enough. (the xml-ization aka 'registry-ization' of just > > >> standard config files seems to bite me in various aspects of computing) > > >> > > >> I'd like to launch openvpn with my config file from nm. Is there a > > >> way? Short of that is there a way to make dbus or whatever think of I > > >> have network without launching from nm? > > >> > > >> Thanks! > > >> -Scott > > >> > > >> _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list > > >> mailing list > > >> NetworkManager-list@gnome.org > > >> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list > > > > > > > > > > > > -- Cordiali Saluti Alessandro Bono _______________________________________________ networkmanager-list mailing list networkmanager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list