GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 753106
[RFE] allow network independent auto connect for VPN connections
Last modified: 2020-11-12 14:31:47 UTC
Currently, the autoconnect feature is disabled for VPN Connections (only tested openvpn and vpnc, but i assume this applies to all VPN connections). It would be helpful to make this feature available, i.e. that a VPN can automatically connect, whenever any connection comes up / full connectivity is established for any interface.. Use case: I have a openvpn connection to some remote network and want to be able to access network shares, etc in this network whenever I am online. It does not matter which interface is used or if a specific wireless network is used. It should just work without any user interaction, whenever it is possible to connect (similar to the openvpn@ init scripts / unit files) Making the vpn a secondary for a specific configured connection is not sufficient, since: 1. I need to configure this for every single wifi i connect to 2. If i make the vpn a secondary for both the wired and the wireless connection of my NB, I am unable to connect to the wired and the wireless connection simultaneously, because of their common secondary.
I was able to enable auto connect to VPN using this command from a terminal: $ nm-connection-editor But I still didn't get everything totally working. See: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=789626
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