NetworkManager 0.9.10 released

Posted Jun 22, 2014 14:50 UTC (Sun) by Chousuke (subscriber, #54562)
Parent article: NetworkManager 0.9.10 released

The feature list for this looks damn impressive. Before, I avoided relying on networkmanager for anything but simple DHCP and VPN client setups because I felt its tooling was seriously lacking. With this release, it looks like it might actually be worth using more seriously

NetworkManager 0.9.10 released

Posted Jun 23, 2014 9:31 UTC (Mon) by russell (guest, #10458) [Link] (3 responses)

I used network manager for vpns for a while. Until a vpn connection dropped, then network manager ( ever eager to please and make life easy ) just sent the traffic across the internet in the open rather than blocking traffic.

This is not a problem if the remote end doesn't accept traffic other than VPN encrypted packets. But if I'm using a VPN for anonymity or for circumventing geoblocking. That's a problem.

Who knows what other helpful features are present. It's not transparent, so I can't trust it.

NetworkManager 0.9.10 released

Posted Jun 23, 2014 10:50 UTC (Mon) by jonnor (guest, #76768) [Link] (2 responses)

Several bugs open around this at https://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?product=NetworkMan...

I think there should be a global/interface-wide "never allow traffic not using VPN".

NetworkManager 0.9.10 released

Posted Jun 23, 2014 15:38 UTC (Mon) by dcbw (guest, #50562) [Link] (1 responses)

Right. More specifically, there is:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=349151
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=680955

But there's already been a feature called "secondary connections" since 0.9.4 I believe, that ties a VPN to a normal connection. If the VPN fails, that also fails the normal connection. You can find this in the "General" tab of nm-connection-editor:

"Automatically connect to VPN when using this connection"

Quite possibly under-publicised... but we'll still look into those two bugs above too, because they make sense.

NetworkManager 0.9.10 released

Posted Jul 3, 2014 13:19 UTC (Thu) by cortana (subscriber, #24596) [Link]

While the normal connection is up, but before the VPN connection is up, will traffic be routed through the normal connection?