On Fri, 2009-10-30 at 17:58 +0100, Benoit Boissinot wrote: > Hi list, > > First thanks for network-manager, I've been using it for a long time > and just began to use it's openvpn plugin, it's really nice! > > I have a small feature request regarding the custom routing option. > Currently you can easily direct direct a subnetwork to a connection > (the "use this connection only for ressources on its network" > checkbox). > But if you want something more complex (e.g. the vpn has a private IP > (192.68.0.X), but you want to direct all traffic to the site through > the vpn, not just 192.168.0.0/24, but a global ipv4 prefix) it won't > work and you have to add custom routes. > But custom routes are not automagic at all, for example the gateway > must be static, it means that if the routeur ip changes, you have to > update the route, etc. > > I guess most people uses that setting to route a subnetwork to the > gateway provided by the connection, so wouldn't it be better to have > an UI to facilitate it? > > eg: > Use this connection for ressources on the following network (and a way > to input a network, only address+netmask or address/prefix, no metric > needed)
I may not exactly understand, but maybe we could repurpose a blank gateway to mean the connection's current gateway if any. Then you leave "Use this connection only for resources on its network" *un* checked, and you enter in your 192.168.0.0/24 route and you'd end up with something like this in your routing table: 192.168.0.0 <vpn gw> 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 tun0 Maybe? Dan _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
