Thanks, I will check it out


On Tue, Jan 7, 2020 at 6:06 PM Thomas Haller <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Tue, 2020-01-07 at 16:05 +0330, Babak Razmjoo via networkmanager-
> list wrote:
> > I have a CentOS 7 server which is connected to a PPTP VPN network.
> > That means CentOS7 is a PPTP client itself. I need to direct HTTP
> > requests to the PPTP server, but when I click the ppp0 switch in
> > cockpit web panel, or run 'nmcli device connect ppp0', I get this
> > error:
> >
> > Error: Failed to add/activate new connection: Device class
> > NMDevicePpp had no complete_connection method
>
>
> Hi,
>
>
> `nmcli device connected` can do one of two things:
>
> 1) if no suitable profile exists, create one and activate it.
>
> 2) if a suitable profile exits, activate it. In that case, it's very
> much the same as `nmcli connection up $PROFILE`, except that
> NetworkManager will automatically find the profile.
>
>
> VPN profiles aren't handled like regular profiles, and hence `nmcli
> device connect` wouldn't work for it anyway. That probably should be
> improved.
>
>
> Instead, create/modify the profile to your liking. Start by looking at
> the available profiles with `nmcli connection`. Activate the right one
> with `nmcli connection up`.
>
>
>
>
>
> best,
> Thomas
>
>
> >
> > My system specs:
> >
> > $ uname -a
> > Linux localhost.localdomain 3.10.0-1062.9.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Dec
> > 6 15:49:49 UTC 2019 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> >
> > $ ip a
> > 1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN
> > group default qlen 1000
> >     link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
> >     inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
> >        valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
> > 2: ens33: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast
> > state UP group default qlen 1000
> >     link/ether 00:0c:29:2b:ba:88 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
> >     inet 192.168.100.52/24 brd 192.168.100.255 scope global
> > noprefixroute dynamic ens33
> >        valid_lft 1632519sec preferred_lft 1632519sec
> > 37: ppp0: <POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST,NOARP,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1446 qdisc
> > pfifo_fast state UNKNOWN group default qlen 3
> >     link/ppp
> >     inet 192.168.73.250 peer 192.168.73.1/32 scope global ppp0
> >        valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
> >
> > $ ip route
> > default via 192.168.100.102 dev ens33 proto dhcp metric 100
> > 192.168.73.1 dev ppp0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.73.250
> > 192.168.100.0/24 dev ens33 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.100.52
> > metric 100
> >
> > $ route
> > Kernel IP routing table
> > Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref
> >  Use Iface
> > default         gateway         0.0.0.0         UG    100    0
> >  0 ens33
> > 192.168.73.1    0.0.0.0         255.255.255.255 UH    0      0
> >  0 ppp0
> > 192.168.100.0   0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     100    0
> >  0 ens33
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