Re: Headless VPN connections

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Wed, 2014-07-16 at 10:24 +0200, D.S. Ljungmark wrote:
> Thanks, good to know.  The one thing I did struggle with for a while was
> permissions on the keyfiles. Now as said, we have a connection defined. It
> connects as intended, if ordered manually. But it doesn't auto connect or
> reconnect.

VPN autoconnect is not implemented at this time, unless you use the
"secondaries" functionality.  VPN reconnect is also not implemented, but
we hope to make that work better soon.

Dan

> /D.S.
> On 16 Jul 2014 10:20, "Thomas Haller" <thaller redhat com> wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 2014-07-15 at 17:16 +0200, D.S. Ljungmark wrote:
> > > On 15/07/14 15:20, Thomas Haller wrote:
> > > > ... BUT... for VPN, the settings are opaque to NetworkManager and
> > passed
> > > > on to the VPN plugin. So, to know the meaning of the [vpn] settings,
> > you
> > > > have to look for their meaning in NetworkManager-openvpn... usually
> > > > these parameters correspond to command line options to openvpn. So see
> > > > `man openvpn`.
> > >
> > > Aye, we have openVpn setup & working. but not integrated with
> > > NetworkManager, what we're hoping is to have NM manage all interfaces
> > > and VPN's and just have stuff "work" without having to manage it via
> > > various cron jobs to automatically restart things just in case.
> > > ( seriously, running curl http://vpn.vpn.vpn || service vpn restart  is
> > > -not- optimal. But was what we used to have )
> >
> >
> > Sidenote: NetworkManager-openvpn plugin does not pass any keys blindly
> > to openvpn. It only allows those options, that it understands. The
> > reason is that if the plugin would allow options that it cannot
> > understand, it would not know what openvpn is doing. Thus, there might
> > be some options, that are not implemented in the plugin and do not work.
> >
> > But as you said you got NM connecting, that does not concern you.
> >
> >
> > Thomas
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