[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#489802: Bug#489802: cannot start vpn from commandline via network-manager

[Michael Biebl]

Folkert van Heusden wrote:
> Package: network-manager
> Version: 0.6.6-2
> Severity: normal
> 
> 
> cannot start vpn from commandline via network-manager
> 
> I've got a vpn configured in network-manager. I can successfully start
> it from the network-manager gui.
> Now I would like to have it automatically started as soon as
> /etc/network/if-up.d/somescript is started.
> So what I do from that script is:
> su - folkert -c '/usr/local/sbin/NetworkManager.startvpn keetweej.vanheusden.com'
> where the /usr/local/sbin/NetworkManager.startvpn is just a python
> script that does:
> interface.activateVPNConnection() etc. (if you're interested, the script
> can be found here: http://blog.mithis.net/archives/ideas/51-nm-autovpn )
> Now from what the comments tell me it only works with gutsy, not with
> feisty ubuntu. Now I checked but gutsy has an older network-manager than
> debian testing. Maybe some patch in ubuntu fixed it? I skimmed through
> their patch-list but could not find a relevant vpn-related fix.
> 

You can only activate a NM vpn connection, if another NM, non-vpn 
connection is active, i.e. NM is in the online state.

You can't activate a NM vpn connection, if the the underlying connection 
e.g. is setup vi /etc/network/interfaces, simple as that.
Is this, what you are trying to do?

Cheers,
Michael

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