On Wed, 2014-12-17 at 14:45 +0000, Another Sillyname wrote: > I have setup a VPN on a Laptop using Fedora 21 x86_64. > > The VPN works fine however the gnome notifications are not reflecting > the true state of the VPN. > > In Network Settings you can connect to XXXVPN using the ON/OFF switch. > > If you then do a 'nmcli connections show --active' you will get the > correct information regarding the VPN and also the tun will show > active on a separate line. > > ifconfig reports the 'hard' settings for the nic together with the > relevant VPN settings. > > I had noticed on a couple of occasions the VPN had dropped however the > gnome settings were still showing active..... > > So if the VPN gets dropped (NOT manually disconnected) > > Gnome settings will still show the VPN as connected. > > nmcli connections show --active > > will still show the VPN as active, however the 'tun' line has now > disappeared confirming the VPN is down.
If this happens, then it seems that the VPN you're using isn't notifying the NM VPN plugin about the failure, or there's a bug in the plugin. But we'll need some logs for that. Based on what you describe, I think this VPN drop thing is a bug in NM or the VPN plugin. Can you grab some /var/log/messages about that? Also very useful is to run the specific VPN plugin with "--debug --persist" which will dump a ton of information that we can use to figure it out. eg: /usr/libexec/nm-vpnc-service --debug --persist /usr/libexec/nm-openvpn-service --debug --persist Dan > ifconfig shows the 'hard' settings for the nic but no entry for the VPN. > > This means there's a disjoint in what is being reported via > Gnome/NetworkManager and the actuality of the status of the VPN. > > In effect there would appear to be a need to 'actively poll' the tun > to ensure the VPN is still active and if the tun fails NetworkManager > needs to be updated accordingly. > _______________________________________________ > networkmanager-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list _______________________________________________ networkmanager-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
