Re: complex openvpn - can nm just launch?

[Robert Vogelgesang <vogel users sourceforge net>]

Dan,

On Thu, Apr 08, 2010 at 05:15:54PM -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.

I'd like to see this feature, too.  Could you please elaborate on what
has to be done to support this?

If it's not too much work, I'd give it a try over the next few
weekends (I'd like to use this feature mid-May ;-)).

	Robert

> 
> > - 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.
> 
> 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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