Magnus,

I'll submit a new bug, once I can confirm that it's not OpenVPN
specific.  At least I suspect that the DHCP lease renewal will nuke the
link-local 169.254.0.0/16 route regardless of OpenVPN being in use or
not.  OpenVPN is just hit harder due to the fact that the host route is
absolutely necessary for VPN to work if the VPN-gateway resides within
one of the networks routed inside the tunnel, but it would probably just
be an incarnation of the same bug which is basically bad handling of
DHCP renewals.  However I'll have to wait some hours for the DHCP lease
to expire first.  :-)

Alexander,

there was some activity in the GNOME bug tracker, and a setting called
«Ignore automatically obtained routes» was mentioned.  It defaults to
off, which is what I would want it to be (or so I thought), but out of
curiousity, I tried to enable that setting, and surprisingly enough -
now it works!  So the logic is incorrectly reversed in the NM-openvpn
code that handles that setting - if you ask it to ignore the VPN server
routes, NM-openvpn will respect them, and vice verca.  The NM developer
commenting there said that « [y]ou also must have at least NM svn r4181
or later as well as NetworkManager-openvpn r4170 or later», so maybe the
bug is already fixed upstream.  (I'm not sure though, his comment was to
me a bit unclear in some places).

Michael & JB:  Can you confirm that enabling «Ignore automatically
obtained routes» (you'll find it in IPv4 Settings -> Routes... in the
config editor) causes the default route to be installed as expected?

Tore

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