Re: openvpn; even basic setup not going so great

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Tue, 2006-10-03 at 10:15 +1300, Steve Wray wrote:
> I'm glad that I have started some useful discussion on the issue of
> openvpn config with network manager, I hope it leads somewhere!

What version of the OpenVPN plugin, and what version of NetworkManager
are you using?

dan

> 
> I am having some problems with a very *very* basic openvpn setup.
> 
> The server has this:
> 
> dev tun
> ifconfig 10.8.0.2 10.8.0.1
> secret static.key
> 
> 
> I have a working openvpn config file on the client which looks like this:
> 
> remote ip.address.removed
> dev tun
> ifconfig 10.8.0.1 10.8.0.2
> secret static.key
> route 192.168.1.0 255.255.255.0
> 
> 
> I've tried setting this up in NetworkManager with no luck, but I note
> that there doesn't seem to be an option for setting the route. (And yes,
> I did set the lzo compression option in the NetworkManager gui.)
> 
> That said, it doesn't quite make sense with the error messages because
> its not as if the server is trying to push a route; the worst that
> should happen is that the routing doesn't come up correctly when
> NetworkManager brings the VPN up.
> 
> 
> /var/log/NetworkManager has this to say:
> 
> Oct  3 10:01:21 thinkux NetworkManager: <WARNING>
> nm_vpn_service_process_signal (): VPN failed for service
> 'org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.openvpn', signal 'IPConfigBad', with
> message 'The VPN login failed because the VPN program received an
> invalid configuration from the VPN server.'.
> 
> 
> Meanwhile I see this in /var/log/messages:
> 
> Oct  3 10:09:24 thinkux nm-openvpn[4617]:
> /usr/bin/nm-openvpn-service-openvpn-helper tun0 1500 1545 10.8.0.2
> 10.8.0.1 init
> Oct  3 10:09:24 thinkux nm-openvpn[4617]: script failed: shell command
> exited with error status: 1
> 
> 
> 
> Any ideas? I find it hard to believe that such a basic openvpn config
> could be causing problems for NetworkManager, I'm not using anywhere
> near the bazillion options that openvpn supports ;)
> 
> Thanks!
> 
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