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I'm trying to configure networkmanager to open up my VPN connection - using the static/preshared key method - but no dice. (Although I'm able to connect just fine using openvpn from the command line) Anyone been able to get this to work and/or have some suggestions?
I've installed the packages networkmanager, networkmanager-openvpn, and nm-applet. I run nm-applet, and configure the connection, but when I try to launch the connection, it fails. Log file reads as follows:
Oct 28 16:43:56 daroselin NetworkManager: <info> Starting VPN service 'org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.openvpn'...
Oct 28 16:43:56 daroselin NetworkManager: <info> VPN service 'org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.openvpn' started (org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.openvpn), PID 19131
Oct 28 16:43:56 daroselin NetworkManager: <info> VPN service 'org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.openvpn' just appeared, activating connections
Oct 28 16:43:56 daroselin NetworkManager: <info> VPN plugin state changed: 1
Oct 28 16:43:56 daroselin NetworkManager: <info> VPN plugin state changed: 3
Oct 28 16:43:56 daroselin nm-openvpn[19133]: OpenVPN 2.1_rc20 x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu [SSL] [LZO2] [EPOLL] built on Oct 18 2009
Oct 28 16:43:56 daroselin nm-openvpn[19133]: NOTE: the current --script-security setting may allow this configuration to call user-defined scripts
Oct 28 16:43:56 daroselin nm-openvpn[19133]: LZO compression initialized
Oct 28 16:43:56 daroselin kernel: tun0: Disabled Privacy Extensions
Oct 28 16:43:56 daroselin nm-openvpn[19133]: TUN/TAP device tun0 opened
Oct 28 16:43:56 daroselin nm-openvpn[19133]: /sbin/ifconfig tun0 10.1.0.2 pointopoint 10.1.0.1 mtu 1500
Oct 28 16:43:56 daroselin NetworkManager: <info> VPN connection 'DARSYS VPN' (Connect) reply received.
Oct 28 16:43:56 daroselin NetworkManager: <info> VPN plugin failed: 2
Oct 28 16:43:56 daroselin nm-openvpn[19133]: /usr/libexec/nm-openvpn-service-openvpn-helper tun0 1500 1545 10.1.0.2 10.1.0.1 init
Oct 28 16:43:56 daroselin nm-openvpn[19133]: Exiting
Oct 28 16:43:56 daroselin NetworkManager: <info> VPN plugin failed: 1
Oct 28 16:43:56 daroselin NetworkManager: <info> VPN plugin state changed: 6
Oct 28 16:43:56 daroselin NetworkManager: <info> VPN plugin state change reason: 0
Oct 28 16:43:56 daroselin NetworkManager: <WARN> connection_state_changed(): Could not process the request because no VPN connection was active.
Oct 28 16:43:56 daroselin NetworkManager: <info> Policy set 'Auto eth0' (eth0) as default for routing and DNS.Suspiciously, it never seems to try to open a connection to the gateway. (Note that the gateway's IP address never appears in the log entries.)
I've configured the connection in nm-applet as follows:
Gateway: <internet IP address of the gateway/server I'm trying to VPN into>
Type: Static Key
Static Key: <the static key file>
Key direction: none
Remote IP address: 10.1.0.1
Local IP address: 10.1.0.2
When I launch openvpn from the command line, the conf file reads as follows:
[darose@daroselin ca]$ cat /etc/openvpn/static-client.conf
#
# Sample OpenVPN configuration file for
# office using a pre-shared static key.
#
# '#' or ';' may be used to delimit comments.
# Use a dynamic tun device.
# For Linux 2.2 or non-Linux OSes,
# you may want to use an explicit
# unit number such as "tun1".
# OpenVPN also supports virtual
# ethernet "tap" devices.
dev tun
remote <internet IP address of the gateway/server I'm trying to VPN into>
# 10.1.0.1 is our local VPN endpoint (office).
# 10.1.0.2 is our remote VPN endpoint (home).
ifconfig 10.1.0.2 10.1.0.1
# Our up script will establish routes
# once the VPN is alive.
; up ./office.up
#up ./client.up
route 10.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 10.1.0.1
# Our pre-shared static key
secret static.key
# OpenVPN 2.0 uses UDP port 1194 by default
# (official port assignment by iana.org 11/04).
# OpenVPN 1.x uses UDP port 5000 by default.
# Each OpenVPN tunnel must use
# a different port number.
# lport or rport can be used
# to denote different ports
# for local and remote.
; port 1194
# Downgrade UID and GID to
# "nobody" after initialization
# for extra security.
#user nobody
#group nobody
# If you built OpenVPN with
# LZO compression, uncomment
# out the following line.
comp-lzo
# Send a UDP ping to remote once
# every 15 seconds to keep
# stateful firewall connection
# alive. Uncomment this
# out if you are using a stateful
# firewall.
; ping 15
# Uncomment this section for a more reliable detection when a system
# loses its connection. For example, dial-ups or laptops that
# travel to other locations.
; ping 15
ping 10
; ping-restart 45
ping-restart 120
;keepalive 10 60
ping-timer-rem
persist-tun
persist-key
# Verbosity level.
# 0 -- quiet except for fatal errors.
# 1 -- mostly quiet, but display non-fatal network errors.
# 3 -- medium output, good for normal operation.
# 9 -- verbose, good for troubleshooting
verb 3
#verb 9Anyone have any idea what the problem might be here?
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Bump.
Anybody? Bueller?
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If anyone's curious, I opened an upstream bug about this:
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