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Bug 757996 - Connecting to a VPN through IPv6 not supported
Connecting to a VPN through IPv6 not supported
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: NetworkManager
Classification: Platform
Component: general
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: NetworkManager maintainer(s)
NetworkManager maintainer(s)
Depends on:
Blocks: nm-openvpn-options
 
 
Reported: 2015-11-12 13:28 UTC by Les De Ridder
Modified: 2020-11-12 14:32 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
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Description Les De Ridder 2015-11-12 13:28:06 UTC 
Connecting to a VPN server through IPv6 is not supported.

Using the OpenVPN plugin to import a .ovpn file containing "proto udp6", the protocol information is discarded/ignored and NetworkManager falls back to the default protocol (UDP over IPv4).

The settings GUI doesn't have an option for using IPv6 either.
Comment 1 François Kooman 2016-01-31 15:28:57 UTC 
This is also true when using:

remote vpn.example.org 1194 udp6
remote vpn.example.org 443 tcp6
Comment 2 François Kooman 2016-01-31 15:30:41 UTC 
Could possibly be added to nm-openvpn-options blocker.
Comment 3 Tore Anderson 2017-08-01 08:09:09 UTC 
FYI, the latest version of OpenVPN (v2.4) will prefer to use the IPv6 address of the hostname of the VPN gateway if it can. I've confirmed this works fine with NM v1.8.2. This bug can probably be closed.

Tore
Comment 4 André Klapper 2020-11-12 14:32:24 UTC 
bugzilla.gnome.org is being shut down in favor of a GitLab instance. 
We are closing all old bug reports and feature requests in GNOME Bugzilla which have not seen updates for a long time.

If you still use NetworkManager and if you still see this bug / want this feature in a recent and supported version of NetworkManager, then please feel free to report it at https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/-/issues/

Thank you for creating this report and we are sorry it could not be implemented (workforce and time is unfortunately limited).