Dan I've responded with a couple of log attachment zips direct to your account, if you don't see them they may be in your spamtrap.
Regards Tony On 17 December 2014 at 15:56, Dan Williams <d...@redhat.com> wrote: > On Wed, 2014-12-17 at 14:45 +0000, Another Sillyname wrote: >> I have setup a VPN on a Laptop using Fedora 21 x86_64. >> >> The VPN works fine however the gnome notifications are not reflecting >> the true state of the VPN. >> >> In Network Settings you can connect to XXXVPN using the ON/OFF switch. >> >> If you then do a 'nmcli connections show --active' you will get the >> correct information regarding the VPN and also the tun will show >> active on a separate line. >> >> ifconfig reports the 'hard' settings for the nic together with the >> relevant VPN settings. >> >> I had noticed on a couple of occasions the VPN had dropped however the >> gnome settings were still showing active..... >> >> So if the VPN gets dropped (NOT manually disconnected) >> >> Gnome settings will still show the VPN as connected. >> >> nmcli connections show --active >> >> will still show the VPN as active, however the 'tun' line has now >> disappeared confirming the VPN is down. > > If this happens, then it seems that the VPN you're using isn't notifying > the NM VPN plugin about the failure, or there's a bug in the plugin. > But we'll need some logs for that. Based on what you describe, I think > this VPN drop thing is a bug in NM or the VPN plugin. > > Can you grab some /var/log/messages about that? Also very useful is to > run the specific VPN plugin with "--debug --persist" which will dump a > ton of information that we can use to figure it out. eg: > > /usr/libexec/nm-vpnc-service --debug --persist > /usr/libexec/nm-openvpn-service --debug --persist > > Dan > >> ifconfig shows the 'hard' settings for the nic but no entry for the VPN. >> >> This means there's a disjoint in what is being reported via >> Gnome/NetworkManager and the actuality of the status of the VPN. >> >> In effect there would appear to be a need to 'actively poll' the tun >> to ensure the VPN is still active and if the tun fails NetworkManager >> needs to be updated accordingly. >> _______________________________________________ >> 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
