[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#744845: Bug#744845: Allow simultanious VPN connections

[Dan Williams]

On Tue, 2014-04-15 at 13:14 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> Am 15.04.2014 11:34, schrieb Martin Zobel-Helas:
> > Package: network-manager-openvpn
> > Version: 0.9.8.4-2
> > Severity: wishlist
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > at work i sometimes need two simultanoius VPN connections to access all
> > the hosts i need to work with.
> > 
> > When i try to connect to a second OpenVPN connection via Network
> > Manager OpenVPN, i get disconnected from the first connection, that is
> > already active.
> > 
> > The VPNs run painless at the same time when started from command line.
> > 
> > Idea: Add a checkbox to the dialog "Allow simultanious VPN connections"
> > so i can at least choose when setting up the VPN connection to run more
> > than one VPN at the same time using network manager.
> 
> This is most likely a core network-manager issue, and not specific to
> network-manager-openvpn.
> 
> Dan, is that correct?
> Or would it be possible to activate multiple VPN connections and is this
> simply a UI issue to expose that functionality?

At the moment, only one VPN of each type can be active at the same time.
Eg, you *should* be able to have an OpenVPN and a vpnc at the same time
already, though I haven't tried that.  But you cannot yet have two VPN
connections of the same type simultaneously.  That's a limitation in the
core NM (which I hope to remove quite soon) as well as a UI decision in
nm-applet to make the NM limitation clearer.

Dan