Dan Haven't heard back so not sure if you've seen my messages over the last couple of days.
Do you want me to file this as a bugzilla? Regards Tony On 18 December 2014 at 13:19, Another Sillyname <anothersn...@googlemail.com> wrote: > 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
