| 2014-03-02 00:21:11 |
Lonnie Lee Best |
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Since Friday 2-28-2014, Ubutnu 14.04, has seemingly made changes to the way the Network Manager establishes a VPNC connection to a cisco firewall.
Normally, you establish a VPNC connection with these steps (assuming you've already configured the VPNC connection):
1) Click on the Network Connection manager's indicator.
2) Select "VPN Connections"
3) Select the VPNC connection's name you've previously configured.
The normal procedure requires no further steps; you typically see a system notification soon after this informing you that your VPN connection is now established, and then that notification fades away without explicit effort.
Now, instead, (after step 3) a dialog pops up (unnecessarily) which has two buttons "Connect" and "Cancel". If you click the "connect" button it cancels! If you click the "cancel" button it connects!
I'm not proposing that this dialog be fixed, I'm proposing that it be removed (as it was before). It is completely unnecessary; the user has already been burdened with 3 steps that clearly indicate that their intention is to connect to the VPN. Why then prompt them again, asking them if they want to connect?
This silly dialog is specific to VPNC connections. When I vpn via OpenVPN, this unnecessary dialog doesn't appear. |
Since Friday 2-28-2014, Ubutnu 14.04 has seemingly made changes to the way the Network Manager establishes a VPNC connection to a cisco firewall.
Normally, you establish a VPNC connection with these steps (assuming you've already configured the VPNC connection):
1) Click on the Network Connection manager's indicator.
2) Select "VPN Connections"
3) Select the VPNC connection's name you've previously configured.
The normal procedure requires no further steps; you typically see a system notification soon after this informing you that your VPN connection is now established, and then that notification fades away without explicit effort.
Now, instead, (after step 3) a dialog pops up (unnecessarily) which has two buttons "Connect" and "Cancel". If you click the "connect" button it cancels! If you click the "cancel" button it connects!
I'm not proposing that this dialog be fixed, I'm proposing that it be removed (as it was before). It is completely unnecessary; the user has already been burdened with 3 steps that clearly indicate their intention is to connect to the VPN. Why then prompt them again, asking them if they want to connect?
This silly dialog is specific to VPNC connections. When I use the network manager to vpn via OpenVPN, this unnecessary dialog doesn't appear. |
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