OpenVPN routes that are pushed are removed by network-manager

[Christian Theune]

Binary package hint: network-manager

I'm using network manager with VPN support and OpenVPN.

My OpenVPN-Server pushes the routes to the clients which works well with regular OpenVPN clients. With network manager I see those routes getting pushed but then overwritten by network manager.

The main annoyance is that the redirected gateway gets overridden with a default route that uses 0.0.0.0 as it's gateway. That's not gonna fly and breaks VPN support very badly.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Could you please follow the instructions at the Capture Log portion of https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingNetworkManager and add your '/var/log/syslog' file as an attachment to your bug report? Thanks in advance.

[Sebastian Wehrmann (sw-gocept)]

Hi,

I'm on the same network as Christian, use Ubuntu 7.10, too, and have the exact same problem when trying to connect to our vpn with the network manager. I captured the syslog on my machine and attached it to this post.

[rlogiacco (rlogiacco)]

hardy heron seems still affected by this issue

[Robert Buhren (weelkin)]

Are you using TAP or TUN devices ? because there seems to be a problem with routes when using a TAP device see ---> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager-openvpn/+bug/279597 and https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager-openvpn/+bug/201777

I'm using the the intrepid beta and i have a similar problem.

[Thomas Hood (jdthood)]

Is this problem still present in Precise?