Comment 19 for bug 124663

Try out installing/reinstalling the following packages:

pptpd, pptp-linux, network-manager-pptp, vpnc, network-manager-vpnc,
bcrelay, openvpn, network-manager-openvpn, ebox-openvpn

Also do make sure the package resolvconf is uninstalled. Thereafter the
nm-vpnc should work.

When I migrated from Feisty to Gutsy, I ran into this problem. Although the
matter being discussed here is entirely different, I would be happy if I was
of some help. The issue at hand is that while you connect through vpnc, your
normal traffic is stopped. Ideally that should not be the case. I have to
connect to my company's proxy to be able to use Google for example. However,
several personal email websites are not accessible through that proxy. It is
therefore preferable if somehow, we have a way of identifying that a
particular DNS or address belongs to the domain of company and should
therefore direct such requests through the tunnel. Others requests should go
bypassing the tunnel and we should be able to use normal internet while
connected to the VPN.

It is just plain irritating right now. However there is some sort of a good
news in all of this. When my nm-vpnc was not working, I had to initially
start with the shell. At that time, I noticed that if I connect through vpnc
on the shell, my pigdin chat client is still working. The same is true about
Azureus. I still however, have to connect to the proxy on firefox. I use
network-manager and connect to VPN using the GUI, all my normal traffic is
blocked and I can't use pigdin or Azureus.

To me therefore, it appears that
1. nm-vpnc/whatever actually runs if you use the GUI to connect to the VPN
gateway, is doing a little more stuff than vpnc does.
2. There should be a way to let firefox know how to bypass the tunnel just
like Azureus and pidgin do.

Thanks,
Balaji

On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 2:26 AM, Mackenzie Morgan <email address hidden> wrote:

> Oddly, I never had this problem back during Gutsy like all you did, but
> now that I'm using Hardy, my network traffic has ceased to go through
> the VPN and I have to use the command line VPN client. I don't mind
> using the command line one too much...but I imagine everybody at my
> school that relies on NM-VPNC is going to come to me when they can't
> figure out how to get online.
>
> --
> No default internet traffic after connecting to VPN
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/124663
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--
Balaji