Bug 207429 - disallow multiple simultaneous VPN connections
Summary: disallow multiple simultaneous VPN connections
Status: RESOLVED UPSTREAM
Alias: None
Product: knetworkmanager
Classification: Miscellaneous
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: Compiled Sources Unspecified
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Will Stephenson
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Keywords: junior-jobs
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Blocks:
 
Reported: 2009-09-15 10:09 UTC by Will Stephenson
Modified: 2013-04-14 14:52 UTC (History)
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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".