Re: OpenVPN and avoiding default route

[Anders Blomdell <anders blomdell control lth se>]

On 2016-11-25 18:42, Thomas Haller wrote:
> On Fri, 2016-11-25 at 17:08 +0100, Anders Blomdell wrote:
> > Would it make sense to let the OpenVPN server disable default-routing 
> > in network manager, for instance
> > by checking if a 'push "route-gateway x.y.z.w"' has been done from
> > the server?
> >
> > I mean something like this, (nm-openvpn-service-openvpn-helper.c):
> >
> >         /* Internal VPN subnet gateway */
> >      tmp = getenv ("route_vpn_gateway");
> >      if (tmp == NULL) {
> >              val = g_variant_new_boolean (TRUE);
> >              g_variant_builder_add (&ip4builder, "{sv}",
> > NM_VPN_PLUGIN_IP4_CONFIG_NEVER_DEFAULT, val);
> >      }
>
> Hi,
>
> This sounds like RFE https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=762911
Indeed it does, further investigation indicates that openvpn has to be modified
to propagate redirect-gateway/redirect-private to the up-script. Will try to look
into this and add my findings to the RFE.

/Anders

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