On Wed, 2014-07-16 at 10:24 +0200, D.S. Ljungmark wrote: > Thanks, good to know. The one thing I did struggle with for a while was > permissions on the keyfiles. Now as said, we have a connection defined. It > connects as intended, if ordered manually. But it doesn't auto connect or > reconnect.
VPN autoconnect is not implemented at this time, unless you use the "secondaries" functionality. VPN reconnect is also not implemented, but we hope to make that work better soon. Dan > /D.S. > On 16 Jul 2014 10:20, "Thomas Haller" <thal...@redhat.com> wrote: > > > On Tue, 2014-07-15 at 17:16 +0200, D.S. Ljungmark wrote: > > > On 15/07/14 15:20, Thomas Haller wrote: > > > > ... BUT... for VPN, the settings are opaque to NetworkManager and > > passed > > > > on to the VPN plugin. So, to know the meaning of the [vpn] settings, > > you > > > > have to look for their meaning in NetworkManager-openvpn... usually > > > > these parameters correspond to command line options to openvpn. So see > > > > `man openvpn`. > > > > > > Aye, we have openVpn setup & working. but not integrated with > > > NetworkManager, what we're hoping is to have NM manage all interfaces > > > and VPN's and just have stuff "work" without having to manage it via > > > various cron jobs to automatically restart things just in case. > > > ( seriously, running curl http://vpn.vpn.vpn || service vpn restart is > > > -not- optimal. But was what we used to have ) > > > > > > Sidenote: NetworkManager-openvpn plugin does not pass any keys blindly > > to openvpn. It only allows those options, that it understands. The > > reason is that if the plugin would allow options that it cannot > > understand, it would not know what openvpn is doing. Thus, there might > > be some options, that are not implemented in the plugin and do not work. > > > > But as you said you got NM connecting, that does not concern you. > > > > > > Thomas > > > _______________________________________________ > networkmanager-list mailing list > networkmanager-list@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list _______________________________________________ networkmanager-list mailing list networkmanager-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
