Re: Gateway for VPN Connections

[Greg Oliver <oliver greg gmail com>]

On Wed, Feb 8, 2017 at 11:36 AM, Thomas Haller <thaller redhat com> wrote:
> On Sat, 2017-01-28 at 10:59 -0600, Greg Oliver wrote:
> > I posted a while back about not being able to set the gateway for
> > static routes in VPN connections to the tun/tap/ppp interface, and a
> > great hint to just set it to 0.0.0.0 was given.  That has worked in
> > the latest NetworkManager in F25.
> >
> > It accepts the gateway and will work as expected, but every time I
> > edit the connection afterward, I have to re-fill in my gateways on
> > every individual route again - per connection.  If I never need to
> > edit a VPN, no issue, but unfortunately I need to often edit them.
> > This behavior just started (recently anyway - not sure the exact
> > commit).
> >
> > Happens on all types (vpnc, openconnect, pptp).
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > -Greg
>
> Hi Greg,
>
> Note that in nm-connection-editor a gateway of "0.0.0.0" is identical
> to leaving the field empty. Thus, if you edit a connection to have
> gateway 0.0.0.0, next time when revisiting the connection the gateway
> is cleared.
>
> Thomas
That is true, but when I edit it again, it requires me to re-enter
0.0.0.0 before I can save it.  Would it be possible to add this as a
feature request to not have to add a gateway address (for manually
enetered routes) at all in the GUI?

Thanks,

Greg