Hi Dave, On Fri, 2016-04-15 at 06:04 +0200, Dave Conroy wrote:
I've just subscribed to a VPN service that has multiple locations, and imported all the necessary .ovpn files into Network Manager. It seems that I do not have the option to disconnect from the VPNs when connected, and upon choosing another location it creates another tun device.
You mean, you would like to have a configuration option in your VPN "connection", so that when activating another specific VPN connection, the former gets automatically disconnected? No, NetworkManager doesn't have a concept of ~conflicting~ connections. When you activate connection A, you'd have to manually disconnect connection B.
I've made the change to no success to /etc/NetworkManager/VPN/openvpn-service.name supports-multiple-connections=false Yet it still connects multiple locations without disconnecting the previous connection.
That shouldn't happen. Did you restart NM after changing the file? But I suspect the file /etc/NetworkManager/VPN/openvpn-service.name is ignored and instead it uses /usr/lib/NetworkManager/VPN/openvpn- service.name. The file in /etc only exists for backward compatibility, in 1.2, the location of this file moved to /usr/lib. Changing supports-multiple-connection=false actually should give you the conflicting behavior, but that doesn't sound like the right approach. First of all, openvpn-service.name is not user-configuration. This setting is here to tell NetworkManager that this plugin is new enough to support multiple activations of Openvpn connections (simultaneously). It's not here to implement ~conflicting connections~. Before 1.2, VPN plugins did not support to activate more then once at a time. Old plugins were always supports-multiple-connections=false.
Furthermore, I've set it to specifically use tun0 for my connections yet upon trying to load another connection even after "disabling" the VPN (I use Cinnamon Desktop) it says that it cannot access tun0 as the device is busy. I can disconnect via nmctl
Yes, you can disconnect with nmcli.
but was wondering if there was a way that I could force NetworkManaager to only use one VPN connection at a time, releasing back tun0 to be used again.
No, such a concept doesn't exist (up to now).
Error Code: ERROR: Cannot ioctl TUNSETIFF tun0: Device or resource busy (errno=16)
openvpn said that? Yes, that sounds expected, right? Thomas
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