#567152 network-manager-openvpn: vpn is stopped when wifi goes down or is renegociated

Package:
network-manager-openvpn
Source:
network-manager-openvpn
Description:
network management framework (OpenVPN plugin core)
Submitter:
Pierre Habouzit
Date:
2010-01-27 17:54:15 UTC
Severity:
important
#567152#5
Date:
2010-01-27 17:47:15 UTC
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When the NM-managed interface goes down (e.g. wifi renegociated) the VPN
is brought down, which is an anti-feature: timeouts for OpenVPN are
usually quite long, and OpenVPN uses UDP, both are resilient to an
interface going down then up again.

When the VPN is brought down, all the TCP connections, tunnels and so on
living through the VPN are broken, whereas they usually survive (for a
manually setup VPN as opposed to a NM-managed one) an interface restart.