Re: IPv6 in network-manager-openvpn

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Mon, 2013-08-26 at 19:01 +0200, Tore Anderson wrote:
> * Dan Williams
>
> > On Thu, 2013-08-22 at 21:39 +0200, Nicolas Iooss wrote:
> > >  Your patch fixed the segmentation fault but now NetworkManager sets up a
> > > default route via the VPN even if the OpenVPN server has not pushed any.
> >
> > Unfortunately we cannot rely on administrators always pushing a default
> > route if the VPN can actually route all traffic.
>
> Nor can you rely on the VPN always being able to route all traffic...
>
> > The problem you're going to run into is that the NM-openvpn plugin
> > doesn't yet support IPv6, because last time some patches got proposed,
> > openvpn didn't have full IPv6 support and didn't pass back the necessary
> > stuff to the helper script :(  That may have changed?
>
> Most definitely! More info here:
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=682620#c1
>
> BTW: When I tested Nicolas' patches I did so using the standard F19
> OpenVPN RPM. It Works(tm)!

Did the issue with --proto you mentioned in the bug (eg
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.network.openvpn.devel/7160/focus=7165 )
get fixed as well?  Then it would be a lot simpler to enable IPv6
support because we wouldn't need any UI changes to make the user
indicate that they want IPv6 explicitly (which would trigger udp6/tcp6).

Dan