Re: NetworkManager VPN and routing in bridged mode

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Wed, 2008-03-12 at 08:42 +0000, Jon Escombe wrote:
> Valentine Sinitsyn wrote:
> 
> > 
> > I've came across an interesting misbehavior while trying to connect my
> > NM 0.6.5 on Arch Linux box to OpenVPN (2.0.9) server and thought it
> > may be useful to raise this question in the mailing list.
> > 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> There was some discussion around this last December, if you look back in 
> this archive thread there were some ideas for resolution, but nothing 
> has progressed (as far as I know).
> 
> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/networkmanager-list/2007-December/msg00163.html
> 
> I'm manually creating my default route (off the bridged subnet) after NM 
> has brought the VPN up. I did look at NM dispatcher, but that didn't 
> appear to handle VPN events...

Adding another key to the VPN ip4config dict like Casey suggested
doesn't sound too hard.  First though, could somebody bring up their
OpenVPN in this configuration, and send me the output of /sbin/route -n
so I can understand the setup a bit more?

dan