Re: DHCP renewal changes routing table

[Nicolas Bock <nicolasbock gmail com>]

Hi David,


On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 3:05 PM, David Woodhouse <dwmw2 infradead org> wrote:
> On Thu, 2015-06-04 at 04:55 -0600, Nicolas Bock wrote:
> > When I run the Juniper Network Connect client (ncsvc) it terminates
> > every time the DHCP license is renewed. The log files of ncsvc are
> > unfortunately rather cryptic, but it appears as if the DHCP renewal
> > leads to a change in the routing table which triggers a "rmon.error"
> > in ncsvc which then tears down the VPN tunnel. Using timestamps the
> > following two events correlate:
>
> FWIW we added support for Juniper Network Connect to the openconnect
> VPN client in March of last year, a few months before you wrote the
> above email. In the last week or so we added NetworkManager support for
> using openconnect with the Juniper protocol too.
Thanks for the follow-up!

> So you shouldn't really need to run badly-integrated third-party code
> at all :)
>
> I'd be interested to know how well it works for you (and it making it
> work, if it doesn't).
As I have switched employers in the meantime, I am fortunate enough to
not be exposed anymore to anything Juniper :) We are using OpenVPN,
which turns out to be way easier to handle :)

Nick


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