Re: complex openvpn - can nm just launch?

[Alessandro Bono <alessandro bono gmail com>]

On Thu, 2010-04-08 at 17:15 -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-04-06 at 22:01 +0000, Alessandro Bono wrote:
> > On Tue, 06 Apr 2010 09:25:44 -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
> > 
> > > On Tue, 2010-04-06 at 10:05 -0600, Scott Serr wrote:
> > >> I have an openvpn config file that works fine with openvpn.  (ubuntu
> > >> lucid beta)  As far as I can tell there is no way to create a like
> > >> config in the nm openvpn editor.  I can make one somewhat similar and
> > >> export, but it doesn't look enough like mine to work.
> > > 
> > > Which options?
> > 
> > Hi Dan
> > 
> > this is my (short) list of missing options/features 
> > 
> > - support for external dhcp on the server side, normally I configure 
> > openvpn server to push only data that I can't provide via dhcp server. So 
> > ip/mask/dns is taken from dhcp and additional route from openvpn
> > This configuration works perfectly for windows machine, on certain 
> > customer I have a dedicated openvpn only for me because I can't use 
> > "normal" openvpn configuration :-(
> 
> Yeah, we need support for this internally.  Right now we pretty much
> assume a tunnel approach, not TAP.  It's not that hard to fix that I
> guess; but in general the real fix for this would be helped by some of
> the activation changes that I'd like to do to fix the PPPoE issues that
> people currently have.
> 
> > - support for multiple remote server 
> 
> Yeah; the trick there is going to be pulling out the IP of the current
> server and using that to update the routing table, since we have to add
> a host route to the VPN server over the underlying hardware interface.
> Maybe that already works just fine for multi-server case, not sure.

I was talking about one openvpn server with multiple ip, with openvpn
you can use "remote" several times or even better support for
<connection>, but also multiple vpn concurrently is an interesting case

> 
> Dan
> 
> > 
> > > 
> > > Dan
> > > 
> > >> I've tried importing/exporting a tweaking, but the wizard thing just
> > >> isn't flexible enough.  (the xml-ization aka 'registry-ization' of just
> > >> standard config files seems to bite me in various aspects of computing)
> > >> 
> > >> I'd like to launch openvpn with my config file from nm.  Is there a
> > >> way? Short of that is there a way to make dbus or whatever think of I
> > >> have network without launching from nm?
> > >> 
> > >> Thanks!
> > >> -Scott
> > >> 
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Cordiali Saluti
Alessandro Bono