[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#519286: Bug#519286: network-manager-pptp-gnome: handles routes badly

Berni Elbourn berni at elbournb.fsnet.co.uk
Thu Mar 12 10:19:28 UTC 2009


Michael Biebl wrote:
> severity 519286 normal
> thanks
> 
> Bernard Elbourn wrote:
>> This using pon:
> 
> Your problem might be related to the fact that your are mixing pon/ifupdown with
>  NetworkManager.
> I know that NM 0.6 does not have (proper) support for dialup connections (and
> this won't change), so all I can advise you, is to use NM 0.7 if you want to
> layer VPN connections over dialup connections using NM.
> 
> Cheers,
> Michael

Yep. This is no real problem for me as I will simply ditch network 
manager until it works properly in stable.

Incidently I had used pptpconfig as a desktop tool for years. 
pptpconfig worked perfectly but it is now depreciated in favour of 
network manager.

Thanks for looking at this,

Berni





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