Re: Configuring routes on a VPN

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Wed, 2009-01-21 at 10:58 -0500, Yaakov Nemoy wrote:
> Hi List,
> 
> Recently, NM managed to lose my preconfigured routes for my VPN
> settings. In an older version, i was able to take a space delimited
> list of ip.ip.ip.ip/mask and copy and paste that into NM's
> configuration dialog. Since then i've never had to look at it. In it's
> current rendition, 0.7 on Fedora 10, the dialog is a complete user
> interface fail. It requires several mouse clicks for each item in that
> list. Given that there are nearly 20 items on this list, it would
> probably take me half an hour to edit it.

I've got plans to make it easier to do, but fighting GtkTreeView is a
bit hard :)  Basically, hitting Tab should move you to the next column,
and there should be key combos for adding/deleting.

> Peeking into gconf to get a better idea of what's going on isn't much
> more enlightening. gconf isn't just storing IP's and subnet masks, but
> using some other weird oddball algorithm to save the information.
> 
> Instead, every time i log on to my company's VPN, all connections are
> being forced to be routed through there, and this is a complete drag
> on my internet connection. Could someone please shed a bit of light on
> how i'm supposed to enter in all the VPN routes?

If the VPN server is sending routes to you, they will get installed
unless you check "Ignore automatically provided routes" in the Routes
dialog.  You can also enter additional routes manually.

If you want to only use the VPN for VPN stuff, check the "Use this
connection only for resources on its network" checkbox in the Routes
dialog (landed just after 0.7, will be in 0.7.1) or add some manual
routes.  Then NM will only route traffic for those routes over the VPN.

Dan