nm-applet disables VPN options if there is no network connection
Bug #356745 reported by
Pavel Pergamenshchik
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| network-manager (Ubuntu) |
Won't Fix
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
Binary package hint: network-
nm-applet assumes that VPN connections cannot be established if there is no active physical (wired or wireless) network connection. The menu entries for VPNs are greyed out. This is unreasonably restrictive. For example, one might have a 3G phone tethered through USB and forwarding a port to the VPN server.
Revision history for this message
| Alexander Sack (asac) wrote | #1 |
| affects: | network-manager-applet (Ubuntu) → network-manager (Ubuntu) |
| Changed in network-manager (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Won't Fix |
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network manager only supports VPN over connections managed by itself; it sounds easy to do it different, but the problem lies in the details. In the end, thats not the way network manager is designed.
Also, using your phone should already work for most phones through USB; bluetooth isn't supported yet, but that will happen for 0.8 most likely.