Re: openvpn with networkmanager

[Benjamin Slade <slade@jnanam.net>]

Thanks, Adam, I'll have to try this. It's hard to know how much of the
issues with NetworkManager+VPNs is a GuixSD-specific issue and how much
is just NetworkManager (on my Arch machine, I have to connect to openvpn
'by hand', it won't connect through NetworkManager; but on my
Bedrock/pieces-from-a-bunch-of-different-distros machine, OpenVPN 'just
works' directly in NetworkManager).

 —Ben



On 2018-09-10T10:05:56-0600, Adam Massmann <massmannak@gmail.com> wrote:

 > Hi Ben,

 > Benjamin Slade <slade@jnanam.net> writes:

 > >
 > > What is a recommended/working way of using OpenVPN on GuixSD?

 > I do not know what the recommended way of working with
 > openvpn is, but I do have a working way. Attached is a bash
 > script that takes a wireless interface as an argument and
 > starts up a vpn, adjusting dns to avoid dns leaks (you will
 > need to modify to add the dns for your setup). So if I have
 > a wifi connection called "interface" I just run
 > ```vpn-launcher-example.sh interface``` to start my vpn
 > session, and then ```vpn-killer-example.sh interface```
 > to cleanup the connection after I have finished
 > openvpn. Also depending on your setup you might need to
 > either run as root, or sprinkle sudos before the nmcli
 > calls.

 > This works well for me, but I strongly doubt it is the
 > recommended way using openvpn. If anyone has a better way
 > I'd also love to hear it.

 > Best,
 > Adam




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