network manager / vpnc question
Phil Meyer
pmeyer at themeyerfarm.com
Mon Jan 19 20:19:46 UTC 2009
Mail Lists wrote:
> I have set up a vpnc connection just fine (to cisco) - while there is
> a button to add routes, it seems to not understand the usual ip route
> arguments ...
>
> I need to keep a default route via a standard gateway (not using the
> vpnc tun0 route) and then set a bunch of other routes to tun0 .. ie i
> need to create these routes and am stumped how to do them -
>
> At its simplest, i'd like the routing table to be unchanged from
> before I connect vpnc (esp the default route) which I asume 'ignore
> automatically obtained routes' radio button will do - and in addition
> add these 2 routes - which I cannot find how to do:
>
> ip route add x.x.x.x/16 dev tun0
> ip route add y.y.y.y/17 dev tun0
>
> Also I don't know for sure I will get 'tun0' so it should probably be a
> meta token but the window to add routes only takes gateway ip type of
> routes ...
>
> It would be nice if NM allowed a program to be called after (and maybe
> before) the connection - that would be helpful when one needs to adjust
> other things, (mailertables, ntp, privoxy settings etc etc).
>
> Does anyone know if this is possible today ?
>
>
>
>
Yes, it is.
All scripts in:
/etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d/
are examined upon every connect and disconnect.
There are several examples in there already on F10.
Good Luck!
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