GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 722843
NM should treat routes differently depending on their origin
Last modified: 2014-01-24 17:57:58 UTC
This is upstream bug for https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1005416: To quote rhbz#1005416 This is a bug for tracking the implementation of a new functionality in NetworkManager. Currently, NM treads all routes the same, regardless how they were configured. Routes should be tagged internally in NM depending on their origin (e.g. DHCP, RA, static, ...). One use of this is for example in bug #999544. Currently NM considers the activation of a connection as failed, when a route cannot be set. This makes mostly sense for manually configured routes, because a partial failure of setting a route cannot be displayed to clients. This behaviour might be undesired for routes from DHCP because a wrong configured route on the DHCP server could make the connection unusable. Note also the related discussion in bug https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=721771#c20 Note also, that this is currently be implemented as part of bug 721724, see branch dcbw/vpn-no-iface
dcbw/vpn-no-iface merged to master along with your fix for this bug.