Re: Notification disjoint - VPN now failed, notifications showing still connected.

[Another Sillyname <anothersname googlemail com>]

Dan

Haven't heard back so not sure if you've seen my messages over the
last couple of days.

Do you want me to file this as a bugzilla?

Regards

Tony

On 18 December 2014 at 13:19, Another Sillyname
<anothersname googlemail com> wrote:
> Dan
>
> I've responded with a couple of log attachment zips direct to your
> account, if you don't see them they may be in your spamtrap.
>
> Regards
>
> Tony
>
> On 17 December 2014 at 15:56, Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2014-12-17 at 14:45 +0000, Another Sillyname wrote:
> > > I have setup a VPN on a Laptop using Fedora 21 x86_64.
> > >
> > > The VPN works fine however the gnome notifications are not reflecting
> > > the true state of the VPN.
> > >
> > > In Network Settings you can connect to XXXVPN using the ON/OFF switch.
> > >
> > > If you then do a 'nmcli connections show --active' you will get the
> > > correct information regarding the VPN and also the tun will show
> > > active on a separate line.
> > >
> > > ifconfig reports the 'hard' settings for the nic together with the
> > > relevant VPN settings.
> > >
> > > I had noticed on a couple of occasions the VPN had dropped however the
> > > gnome settings were still showing active.....
> > >
> > > So if the VPN gets dropped (NOT manually disconnected)
> > >
> > > Gnome settings will still show the VPN as connected.
> > >
> > > nmcli connections show --active
> > >
> > > will still show the VPN as active, however the 'tun' line has now
> > > disappeared confirming the VPN is down.
> >
> > If this happens, then it seems that the VPN you're using isn't notifying
> > the NM VPN plugin about the failure, or there's a bug in the plugin.
> > But we'll need some logs for that.  Based on what you describe, I think
> > this VPN drop thing is a bug in NM or the VPN plugin.
> >
> > Can you grab some /var/log/messages about that?  Also very useful is to
> > run the specific VPN plugin with "--debug --persist" which will dump a
> > ton of information that we can use to figure it out.  eg:
> >
> > /usr/libexec/nm-vpnc-service --debug --persist
> > /usr/libexec/nm-openvpn-service --debug --persist
> >
> > Dan
> >
> > > ifconfig shows the 'hard' settings for the nic but no entry for the VPN.
> > >
> > > This means there's a disjoint in what is being reported via
> > > Gnome/NetworkManager and the actuality of the status of the VPN.
> > >
> > > In effect there would appear to be a need to 'actively poll' the tun
> > > to ensure the VPN is still active and if the tun fails NetworkManager
> > > needs to be updated accordingly.
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