Bug 207429

Summary:	disallow multiple simultaneous VPN connections
Product:	[Unmaintained] knetworkmanager	Reporter:	Will Stephenson <wstephenson>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Will Stephenson <wstephenson>
Status:	RESOLVED UPSTREAM
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	fire
Priority:	NOR	Keywords:	junior-jobs
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Compiled Sources
OS:	Unspecified
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Description Will Stephenson 2009-09-15 10:09:05 UTC

Version:            (using Devel)
Installed from:    Compiled sources

Since NM support for multiple simultaneous VPN connections is flakey (competing default routes, more nameservers than the 3 maximum for /etc/resolv.conf, we should disallow this in the UI.

Comment 1 Will Stephenson 2009-09-15 10:10:39 UTC

Doing this would probably involve watching VpnInterfaceConnections' state changes in VpnInterfaceConnectionProvider (libs/service/vpninterfaceconnectionprovider.*) and disabling/removing other VPNInterfaceConnections while one is active.

Comment 2 Will Stephenson 2010-01-05 17:00:30 UTC

This is now possible with NM.

Comment 3 Bernhard Jungk 2013-03-10 11:08:42 UTC

I know this is a rather old bug, but the resolution of this bug just has biten me. I need two VPN connections to connect to a second VPN over the first one. I could only find bugs on the Red Hat and the Ubuntu trackers, requesting the exact same feature, which is disallowed by the fix applied here:

- https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/299083
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=746536

Does anybody know the status of the support for multiple VPN connections? Is it possible to allow for that feature in the GUI now (because maybe the support for this situation has improved upstream)?

Comment 4 Christoph Feck 2013-04-14 14:52:18 UTC

Bernhard, please report the issue as a new entry for product "Network Management".