Ubuntu
network-manager-openvpn package

OpenVPN LZ4 compression not working in Networkmanager

Bug #1813893 reported by ogghi
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
NetworkManager-OpenVPN
Fix Released
Unknown
network-manager-openvpn (Ubuntu)
Triaged
Low
Unassigned

Bug Description

Hi there,

when importing an ovpn profile (from a PFsense in this case) where compression is set to LZ4 it won't work.
Network manager won't save the config properly, as it does not seem to support lz4?

When I manually use

sudo openvpn --config myconfig.ovpn

it works just fine.

OpenVPN 2.4.6 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu

is being used right now.

Best regards
David

ogghi (david-)
affects: launchpad → ubuntu
William Grant (wgrant)
affects: ubuntu → network-manager-openvpn (Ubuntu)
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thank you for your bug report, that's known upstream
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/NetworkManager-openvpn/issues/1

Changed in network-manager-openvpn (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Triaged
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Changed in network-manager-openvpn:
status: Unknown → New
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pinter tibor (tibyke) wrote :

any update on this? or maybe a workaround?

what I'm doing now is to rename openvpn binary to openvpn.run, and a bash script of /usr/bin/openvpn calls openvpn with its arguments + the lz4 compress option added as follows:
#!/bin/bash
/usr/sbin/openvpn.run --compress lz4 "$@"

It's far from being professional :)

Revision history for this message
Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

No update or the bug would have some activity, upstream is probably a better place to discuss such changes though

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Changed in network-manager-openvpn:
status: New → Fix Released
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