[YLUG] NetworkManager pptp vpn and routes?

[mike cloaked]

On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 10:19 PM, Patrick Dupre<pd520 at york.ac.uk> wrote:
> From a Fedora10:
>
> Kernel IP routing table
> Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use
> Iface
> 144.32.65.50    192.168.0.1     255.255.255.255 UGH   1      0        0 eth0
> 192.168.0.1     0.0.0.0         255.255.255.255 UH    1      0        0 eth0
> 192.168.0.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     1      0        0 eth0
> 144.32.0.0      172.18.1.12     255.255.0.0     UG    1      0        0 tun0
> 0.0.0.0         192.168.0.1     0.0.0.0         UG    0      0        0 eth0
>
>

After posting my method to get connected my routing table looks
somewhat different to yours:
Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
172.26.2.1      0.0.0.0         255.255.255.255 UH    0      0        0 ppp0
144.32.196.175  10.0.0.135      255.255.255.255 UGH   0      0        0 wlan0
144.32.196.175  10.0.0.135      255.255.255.255 UGH   0      0        0 wlan0
10.0.0.0        0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     2      0        0 wlan0
144.32.0.0      0.0.0.0         255.255.0.0     U     0      0        0 ppp0
172.16.0.0      0.0.0.0         255.255.0.0     U     0      0        0 ppp0
0.0.0.0         10.0.0.135      0.0.0.0         UG    0      0        0 wlan0

I notice that you have no destination to the main vpn address - but
mine appears twice and I have no idea why I get a duplicate line! OK -
I just realised your first ip address is the webvpn so this is
certainly not a corresponding vpn tunnel to mine - I am guessing that
you have used the web based Juniper vpn system - I am making the
tunnel connect via NetworkManager-pptp which is quite different.

Everything I need is now served by my connection using
NetworkManager-pptp - apart from being unable to ping my office
desktop!  If I log in to unix0 then I can ping my machine from there,
but if I make the vpn connection then I appear to be unable to ping
the same machine from the laptop running the tunnel!  I wonder if the
university firewall is involved here and is blocking icmp echo?
Arthur?

One thing I have not yet checked is if I can mount a windows share for
one of the departmental servers via the tunnel - I ought to be able to
but I have not yet had time to test this.

-- 
mike