Re: openvpn; even basic setup not going so great

[Steve Wray <steve wray cwa co nz>]

Dan Williams wrote:
> 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?

NetworkManager 0.6.2-32.34

The OpenVPN plugin is 0.3.2cvs20060202-20.10

which are the most recent versions I have been able to find for Suse
Enterprise Desktop using 'smart' package manager.


> 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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