On Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 01:02:38PM -0800, Dan Williams wrote: > On Fri, 2009-10-30 at 17:58 +0100, Benoit Boissinot wrote: > > Hi list, > > > > 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.
Yes, and that's what I've actually been doing (using a blank gateway). But it probably only works because of the way openvpn works: I ended up with the following route: 192.168.0.0/16 dev tun0 proto static scope link And I would acutally prefer: 192.168.0.0/16 via <vpn gw> dev tun0 proto static Is the first behavious actually useful for anyone (add a new network reachable directly from the link)? > 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? Yes, so I guess I should get the gateway by iterating the NMIP4Address's from the config, and pick the first one with a gateway? thanks, Benoit -- :wq _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
