On Tue, 2006-10-03 at 10:15 +1300, Steve Wray wrote: > I'm glad that I have started some useful discussion on the issue of > openvpn config with network manager, I hope it leads somewhere!
What version of the OpenVPN plugin, and what version of NetworkManager are you using? dan > > I am having some problems with a very *very* basic openvpn setup. > > The server has this: > > dev tun > ifconfig 10.8.0.2 10.8.0.1 > secret static.key > > > I have a working openvpn config file on the client which looks like this: > > remote ip.address.removed > dev tun > ifconfig 10.8.0.1 10.8.0.2 > secret static.key > route 192.168.1.0 255.255.255.0 > > > I've tried setting this up in NetworkManager with no luck, but I note > that there doesn't seem to be an option for setting the route. (And yes, > I did set the lzo compression option in the NetworkManager gui.) > > That said, it doesn't quite make sense with the error messages because > its not as if the server is trying to push a route; the worst that > should happen is that the routing doesn't come up correctly when > NetworkManager brings the VPN up. > > > /var/log/NetworkManager has this to say: > > Oct 3 10:01:21 thinkux NetworkManager: <WARNING> > nm_vpn_service_process_signal (): VPN failed for service > 'org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.openvpn', signal 'IPConfigBad', with > message 'The VPN login failed because the VPN program received an > invalid configuration from the VPN server.'. > > > Meanwhile I see this in /var/log/messages: > > Oct 3 10:09:24 thinkux nm-openvpn[4617]: > /usr/bin/nm-openvpn-service-openvpn-helper tun0 1500 1545 10.8.0.2 > 10.8.0.1 init > Oct 3 10:09:24 thinkux nm-openvpn[4617]: script failed: shell command > exited with error status: 1 > > > > Any ideas? I find it hard to believe that such a basic openvpn config > could be causing problems for NetworkManager, I'm not using anywhere > near the bazillion options that openvpn supports ;) > > Thanks! > > _______________________________________________ > NetworkManager-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
