Re: Seeking help with OpenVPN scripts and systemd

2014-09-26 Thread Guido Günther
On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 01:32:26AM +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > Hi, > > Guido Günther: > > The overlap between n-m and systemd-networkd saddens me. n-m got > > support for team/bond interfaces, VLANs, etc a while ago and now we get > > to see yet another tool from systemd-* to redo this. > >

Re: Seeking help with OpenVPN scripts and systemd

2014-09-26 Thread Marc Haber
On Fri, 26 Sep 2014 13:25:13 +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: >On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 12:01:27PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: >> On Fri, 26 Sep 2014 10:58:22 +0200, Josselin Mouette >> wrote: >> >The problem on servers is that you need advanced features such as >> >bridging, VLANs, bonding… and NM alre

Re: Seeking help with OpenVPN scripts and systemd

2014-09-26 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 12:01:27PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > On Fri, 26 Sep 2014 10:58:22 +0200, Josselin Mouette > wrote: > >The problem on servers is that you need advanced features such as > >bridging, VLANs, bonding… and NM already does all of that. > > Is there documentation about that? Doe

Re: Seeking help with OpenVPN scripts and systemd

2014-09-26 Thread Josselin Mouette
Marc Haber wrote: On Fri, 26 Sep 2014 10:58:22 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: >The problem on servers is that you need advanced features such as >bridging, VLANs, bonding… and NM already does all of that. Is there documentation about that?

Re: Seeking help with OpenVPN scripts and systemd

2014-09-26 Thread Marc Haber
On Fri, 26 Sep 2014 10:58:22 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: >The problem on servers is that you need advanced features such as >bridging, VLANs, bonding… and NM already does all of that. Is there documentation about that? Does NM have hooks like wicd used to have? Greetings Marc --

Re: Seeking help with OpenVPN scripts and systemd

2014-09-26 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Sep 26, Josselin Mouette wrote: > As Vincent explained, NM works in a similar way. > The problem on servers is that you need advanced features such as > bridging, VLANs, bonding… and NM already does all of that. But it has a significant list of dependencies, which is obviously tuned for a des

Re: Seeking help with OpenVPN scripts and systemd

2014-09-26 Thread Josselin Mouette
Brian May wrote: On 26 September 2014 09:32, Matthias Urlichs wrote: True, the usecases overlap somewhat, but they're still different. I wouldn't want to install n-m (and the 30 libraries it

Re: Seeking help with OpenVPN scripts and systemd

2014-09-25 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 26 septembre 2014 10:38 +1000, Brian May  : > True, the usecases overlap somewhat, but they're still different. > > I wouldn't want to install n-m (and the 30 libraries it depends > on) > in an initramfs, for instance. > > Unless I am mistaken, I believe systemd-networkd wo

Re: Seeking help with OpenVPN scripts and systemd

2014-09-25 Thread Brian May
On 26 September 2014 09:32, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > True, the usecases overlap somewhat, but they're still different. > > I wouldn't want to install n-m (and the 30 libraries it depends on) > in an initramfs, for instance. > Unless I am mistaken, I believe systemd-networkd would be a lot bett

Re: Seeking help with OpenVPN scripts and systemd

2014-09-25 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Guido Günther: > The overlap between n-m and systemd-networkd saddens me. n-m got > support for team/bond interfaces, VLANs, etc a while ago and now we get > to see yet another tool from systemd-* to redo this. True, the usecases overlap somewhat, but they're still different. I wouldn't want

Re: Seeking help with OpenVPN scripts and systemd

2014-09-25 Thread Svante Signell
On Thu, 2014-09-25 at 19:07 +0200, Guido Günther wrote: > On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 12:53:51PM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: > > My understanding is that they recommend NetworkManager or ConnMan (which > > are competitors, and fill a similar niche) for dynamic / mobile / > > wireless situations; where

Re: Seeking help with OpenVPN scripts and systemd

2014-09-25 Thread Guido Günther
On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 12:53:51PM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: > My understanding is that they recommend NetworkManager or ConnMan (which > are competitors, and fill a similar niche) for dynamic / mobile / > wireless situations; whereas systemd-networkd is intended to be more > like a competitor f

Re: Seeking help with OpenVPN scripts and systemd

2014-09-24 Thread Simon McVittie
On 24/09/14 11:45, Martin Wuertele wrote: > Last time I used n-m for OpenVPN it could only launch one VPN, not > multiple ones. Has that changed? Yes, I've had home and office VPNs up at the same time. (Obviously if you have more than one VPN that wants to provide the default route, or more gener

Re: Seeking help with OpenVPN scripts and systemd

2014-09-24 Thread Martin Wuertele
* Philipp Kern [2014-09-11 09:15]: > Not everyone uses init scripts. There is e.g. also a plugin for > network-manager, in which case it will just work. Last time I used n-m for OpenVPN it could only launch one VPN, not multiple ones. Has that changed? Tough it seems systemd upstream is not happ

Re: Seeking help with OpenVPN scripts and systemd

2014-09-12 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Thorsten Glaser: > The systemd apologetists If you want a civil dialogue with systemd proponents, please refrain from using loaded words like this one. -- -- Matthias Urlichs -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Conta

Re: Seeking help with OpenVPN scripts and systemd

2014-09-12 Thread Axel Wagner
Can anyone please just read the rest of this thread before continuing this flamewar? The original question was asked, answered and the answer was deemed satisfactory. Best, Axel Wagner -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? C

Re: Seeking help with OpenVPN scripts and systemd

2014-09-12 Thread Thorsten Glaser
On Thu, 11 Sep 2014, Gergely Nagy wrote: > OpenVPN works just fine with systemd. Its init script does not, but for Yes, but for many installations, its init script is what is required for the VPN to “work”. > There is no problem with that, at all. Right, no problem except that remote machines a

Re: Seeking help with OpenVPN scripts and systemd

2014-09-11 Thread Simon McVittie
On 11/09/14 18:53, Mirosław Baran wrote: > Does NetworkManager support multiple VPN connections right now? Yes. > (Also, > what about persistent VPN setups that are independent from the desktop > session?) Yes, there's a flag for "automatically connect this VPN when you get lower-level connectiv

Re: Seeking help with OpenVPN scripts and systemd

2014-09-11 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 11 septembre 2014 18:53 +0100, Mirosław Baran  : >> Ultimately, I think this should all be replaced by VPN support in >> NetworkManager and systemd-networkd. > > Does NetworkManager support multiple VPN connections right now? (Also, > what about persistent VPN setups that are independent from t

Re: Seeking help with OpenVPN scripts and systemd

2014-09-11 Thread Mirosław Baran
On 11/09/2014 03:53, Paul Wise wrote: Ultimately, I think this should all be replaced by VPN support in NetworkManager and systemd-networkd. Does NetworkManager support multiple VPN connections right now? (Also, what about persistent VPN setups that are independent from the desktop session?)

Re: Seeking help with OpenVPN scripts and systemd

2014-09-11 Thread Gergely Nagy
Daniel Dickinson writes: > On 10/09/14 02:52 PM, Noel Torres wrote: >> >> Yes. Why to install OpenVPN which might not work? aptitude will tell you >> that >> they are not coinstallable and the sysadmin will then have the option of >> switching init system to a non default one, knowing what th

Re: Seeking help with OpenVPN scripts and systemd

2014-09-11 Thread Alberto Gonzalez Iniesta
On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 02:01:00PM +0200, Ondřej Surý wrote: > Alberto, > > I think you might be too deep in sysvinit paradigms how we did (hack) > things before. > I personally think that mapping the functionality 1:1 is a wrong > approach because you will end up in some impossible scenario in t

Re: Seeking help with OpenVPN scripts and systemd

2014-09-11 Thread Philipp Kern
On 2014-09-10 20:52, Noel Torres wrote: Yes. Why to install OpenVPN which might not work? aptitude will tell you that they are not coinstallable and the sysadmin will then have the option of switching init system to a non default one, knowing what that means, and having a working OpenVPN config

Re: Seeking help with OpenVPN scripts and systemd

2014-09-10 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 8:01 PM, Ondřej Surý wrote: > I think the better way how to convert openvpn to systemd would be: > > to convert all AUTOSTART= VPNs to openvpn@ enabled instances and all > other to disabled openvpn@ instances at upgrade time. I guess there > might be a need to some more sub

Re: Seeking help with OpenVPN scripts and systemd

2014-09-10 Thread Daniel Dickinson
On 10/09/14 02:52 PM, Noel Torres wrote: > > Yes. Why to install OpenVPN which might not work? aptitude will tell you that > they are not coinstallable and the sysadmin will then have the option of > switching init system to a non default one, knowing what that means, and > having a working Ope

Re: Seeking help with OpenVPN scripts and systemd

2014-09-10 Thread Noel Torres
On Wednesday, 10 de September de 2014 18:55:06 Adam D. Barratt escribió: > On Wed, 2014-09-10 at 17:47 +0100, Noel Torres wrote: > > On Wednesday, 10 de September de 2014 05:25:44 Andrey Rahmatullin escribió: > > > On Tue, Sep 09, 2014 at 09:26:28PM +0100, Noel Torres wrote: > > > > openvpn packag

Re: Seeking help with OpenVPN scripts and systemd

2014-09-10 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Wed, 2014-09-10 at 17:47 +0100, Noel Torres wrote: > On Wednesday, 10 de September de 2014 05:25:44 Andrey Rahmatullin escribió: > > On Tue, Sep 09, 2014 at 09:26:28PM +0100, Noel Torres wrote: > > > openvpn package should Conflitcs systemd in order to avoid systemd being > > > installed > > >

Re: Seeking help with OpenVPN scripts and systemd

2014-09-10 Thread Noel Torres
On Wednesday, 10 de September de 2014 05:25:44 Andrey Rahmatullin escribió: > On Tue, Sep 09, 2014 at 09:26:28PM +0100, Noel Torres wrote: > > openvpn package should Conflitcs systemd in order to avoid systemd being > > installed > > ITYM "to avoid openvpn being installed". No, I mean what I wrot

Re: Seeking help with OpenVPN scripts and systemd

2014-09-10 Thread Ondřej Surý
Alberto, I think you might be too deep in sysvinit paradigms how we did (hack) things before. I personally think that mapping the functionality 1:1 is a wrong approach because you will end up in some impossible scenario in the end anyway. I think the better way how to convert openvpn to systemd

Re: Seeking help with OpenVPN scripts and systemd

2014-09-09 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Tue, Sep 09, 2014 at 09:26:28PM +0100, Noel Torres wrote: > openvpn package should Conflitcs systemd in order to avoid systemd being > installed ITYM "to avoid openvpn being installed". -- WBR, wRAR -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsub

Re: Seeking help with OpenVPN scripts and systemd

2014-09-09 Thread Patrick Matthäi
Von meinem iPad gesendet > Am 09.09.2014 um 22:26 schrieb Noel Torres : > > On Tuesday, 9 de September de 2014 16:51:20 Alberto Gonzalez Iniesta escribió: >> AltSubject: For those who care about OpenVPN >> >> Dear fellow developers, >> >> This is a cry for help. I've been trying to support sy

Re: Seeking help with OpenVPN scripts and systemd

2014-09-09 Thread Noel Torres
On Tuesday, 9 de September de 2014 16:51:20 Alberto Gonzalez Iniesta escribió: > AltSubject: For those who care about OpenVPN > > Dear fellow developers, > > This is a cry for help. I've been trying to support systemd in OpenVPN for > some time, but the results are not satisfactory. I'd like to k

Seeking help with OpenVPN scripts and systemd

2014-09-09 Thread Alberto Gonzalez Iniesta
AltSubject: For those who care about OpenVPN Dear fellow developers, This is a cry for help. I've been trying to support systemd in OpenVPN for some time, but the results are not satisfactory. I'd like to keep the current (SysV) behaviour in systemd but it's becoming quite an annoying task. I'd