{"id":1225,"date":"2008-10-13T14:15:35","date_gmt":"2008-10-13T04:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/?p=1225"},"modified":"2009-02-21T13:35:19","modified_gmt":"2009-02-21T03:35:19","slug":"new-networkmanager-vpnc-not-better-at-all-in-fact-much-worse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/13\/new-networkmanager-vpnc-not-better-at-all-in-fact-much-worse\/","title":{"rendered":"new NetworkManager VPNC not better at all (in fact, much worse)"},"content":{"rendered":"

I upgraded to Ubuntu 8.10 the other day, NetworkManager promptly forgot my wireless LAN key (grr… lucky I keep a copy in a text file) as well as my VPN configuration. It’s also changed the UI for entering what specific networks to route over the VPN (’cause the last thing you want is putting all your traffic through VPN when you have a perfectly good internet connection here… or even worse, I do *not* need to go via Sydney or the US to access the machine 2ft from me thank you very much).<\/p>\n

Generally not happy with the new NetworkManager.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I upgraded to Ubuntu 8.10 the other day, NetworkManager promptly forgot my wireless LAN key (grr… lucky I keep a copy in a text file) as well as my VPN configuration. It’s also changed the UI for entering what specific … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[48,55],"class_list":["post-1225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-fail","tag-ubuntu"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5a6n8-jL","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":75,"url":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2003\/03\/25\/poptop-pptp-and-the-vpn-issue\/","url_meta":{"origin":1225,"position":0},"title":"poptop, pptp and the VPN issue","author":"Stewart Smith","date":"2003-03-25","format":false,"excerpt":"VPNs are just plain annoying IPsec isn't remotely easy enough to configure yet (i.e. it's not easy point and click or at least point and type). 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