OpenVPN connects but doesn't pass traffic
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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network-manager-openvpn (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: network-
Using Maverick I have found that it is impossible to connect to an OpenVPN server using network manager. I have a working client.conf using which I can connect at the terminal using openvpn client.conf. Importing the same config file into NM creates a working VPN connection in as much as it connects to the VPN server, but no traffic passes. On examination of the routing table there are some differences (NM adds a route with 32 bit mask to the VPN server via the machine's default gateway) but removal of this route makes no difference, even with the route table identical to when connected to a working VPN in terminal, the NM spawned VPN still will not pass traffic.
This does not seem to be a problem importing OpenVPN configs (have seen this logged elsewhere also) as the issue is also apparent if the connection is created manually within NM. Have also checked bug #610361 but this appears to be a different issue.
Please see below for entries logged in the syslog when connecting with NM, there appear to be errors relating to assigning an address to tun0:
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Feb 23 21:46:00 laptop NetworkManager[
Feb 23 21:46:00 laptop NetworkManager[
Feb 23 21:46:00 laptop NetworkManager[
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Feb 23 21:46:00 laptop NetworkManager[
Feb 23 21:46:15 laptop NetworkManager[
Feb 23 21:46:15 laptop NetworkManager[
Feb 23 21:46:15 laptop NetworkManager[
Feb 23 21:46:15 laptop NetworkManager[
Feb 23 21:46:15 laptop NetworkManager[
Feb 23 21:46:15 laptop NetworkManager[
Feb 23 21:46:15 laptop NetworkManager[
Feb 23 21:46:15 laptop NetworkManager[
Feb 23 21:46:15 laptop NetworkManager[
Feb 23 21:46:15 laptop NetworkManager[
Feb 23 21:46:15 laptop NetworkManager[
Feb 23 21:46:15 laptop NetworkManager[
Feb 23 21:46:15 laptop NetworkManager[
Feb 23 21:46:16 laptop NetworkManager[
Feb 23 21:46:16 laptop NetworkManager[
Feb 23 21:46:16 laptop NetworkManager[
Feb 23 21:46:16 laptop nm-dispatcher.
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Yeaaaah.. I just blew a fat wad of time due to this very issue. Gotta love these gui issues reminiscent of late 90s era Linux. Oh well, command-line doesn't frighten me overly..