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ocbMaurice
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 Posted: Sat Dec 04, 2010 1:31 am Post subject: Automatic Home Connection (LAN, WLAN, VPN) |
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Hi folks,
Sorry for the topic title but couldn't think of any better.
I did a fresh setup on my netbook and want to implement my network in a special way. I have a lan at home with a openvpn server. What I would like to accomplish is a init method which would either connect through lan or wlan to my local network, or connect to lan or wlan to the internet and use openvpn to connect to my local lan. I did write an init script for my old installation but I was not really satisfied with it. I still have this script somewhere in my backups, if anyone would like to have it, but I'm curious if this can be done in pure gentoo.
Basically it should do this:
- Is a network cable attached to the eth port?
- -> no: try wlan
- -> yes: try to get ip via dhcp
- eth dhcp: if successfull: is ip from lan or internet?
- -> lan : success, exit
- -> internet: try wlan
- try wlan with dhcp
- wlan dhcp: if successfull: is ip from lan or internet?
- -> lan: success, exit
- -> internet: is lan also internet ? use lan : wlan
- internet available, use openvpn to connect to lan
Is this possible with gentoo board tools or do I need to write my own init script?
Do you think this would be a cool feature to be implemented? I do!
Best wishes
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ewaller
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| Posted: Sat Dec 04, 2010 1:34 am Post subject: |
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wicd should do all of that. In addition, you can configure it such that if you are on the wlan and connect a wired connection, it can establish that connection and automatically drop the wireless. Later, when you unplug the cable, it will reestablish the wlan connection.
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ocbMaurice
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| Posted: Sat Dec 04, 2010 1:42 am Post subject: |
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Thanks for the reply. Does wicd also cover the connection over vpn if there is only internet available. What I want is in anycase having a local lan ip on the best possible interface (lan/wlan/openvpn). I did a search on the forum for wicd and vpn which did not return anything.
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ewaller
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| Posted: Sat Dec 04, 2010 1:54 am Post subject: |
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Sorry, I missed the VPN question. I don't think wicd will take care of that. I think NetworkManager will. I bounce back and forth between the two, but I don't have a machine with NetworkManager on it at this time.
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ocbMaurice
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| Posted: Sat Dec 04, 2010 1:56 am Post subject: |
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I digged out the scripts is used so far. This was just a first attempt to make it work. And since I like to hack perl I did the logic in perl. This is unfiltered from my config, so don't expect you can copy/paste and use it!
| /etc/init.d/network: | #!/sbin/runscript
# Copyright 1999-2007 Gentoo Foundation
# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
depend() {
need localmount
after bootmisc hostname net.lo dnsmasq
use isapnp isdn pcmcia usb wlan nfsmount netmount
}
start() {
ebegin "Starting Network"
perl /root/network.pl start
eend $? "Check your logs to see why startup failed"
}
stop() {
ebegin "Stopping Network"
perl /root/network.pl stop
eend $? "Check your logs to see why startup failed"
} |
| /root/network.pl: | #!/usr/bin/perl
use strict; use warnings;
my $devices = ["eth0", "wlan0"];
# my $network = "192.168.0.0/16";
# close(STDERR);
sub get_ip
{
no warnings;
if((`/sbin/ifconfig $_[0] 2>/dev/null`)[1]=~m/inet addr:([0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3})/)
{ return $1; } else { return undef; }
}
sub plugged
{
my $rv = undef;
system "ifconfig " . $_[0] . " up"; sleep 1;
if((`/sbin/ifconfig $_[0]`)[1]=~m/UP.+(RUNNING)/)
{ $rv = 1; } else { $rv = 0; }
system "ifconfig " . $_[0] . " down";
return $rv || 2;
}
sub start
{
my $ip = undef;
my $started = undef;
my $success = undef;
my $connection = undef;
foreach my $device (@{$devices})
{
if ($device=~m/^eth[0-9]+$/)
{
unless(plugged($device))
{
print "$device has no cable plugged in\n";
next; # continue;
}
}
system "/etc/init.d/net." . $device . " start";
my $timeout = $device=~m/^(?:ath|wlan)[0-9]+$/ ? 20 : 10;
$ip = undef;
$started = time;
print "started $device .";
while ($started + $timeout > time)
{
$ip = get_ip($device);
last if $ip;
print ".";
sleep 1;
}
if (defined $ip) { print ". $ip\n"; }
else { print ". timeout\n"; }
if ($ip && $ip=~m/192\.168\.0\.[0-9]{1,3}/)
{
if ($success)
{
print "local network cannot be connected twice\n";
system "/etc/init.d/net." . $device . " stop";
}
else
{
print "set local network connected through $device\n";
$connection = [] unless ($connection);
push(@{$connection}, [$device, $ip]);
$success = [$device, $ip];
}
}
elsif ($ip)
{
print "set connection established\n";
$connection = [] unless ($connection);
push(@{$connection}, [$device, $ip]);
}
else
{
print "device $device did not came up\n";
# system "/etc/init.d/net." . $device . " stop";
}
}
if ((not defined $success) && (defined $connection))
{
print "local network not connected - trying vpn via ".join(", ", map { $_->[0] } @{$connection})." - $connection\n";
system "/etc/init.d/openvpn start";
$ip = undef;
$started = time;
print "started openvpn .";
while ($started + 20 > time)
{
$ip = get_ip("tap0");
last if $ip;
print ".";
sleep 1;
}
if (defined $ip) { print ". $ip\n"; }
else { print ". timeout\n"; }
$connection = ["tap0", $ip] if $ip;
if ($ip) { print "openvpn started ($ip)\n"; }
else { print "openvpn could not be started\n"; }
}
if ($connection)
{
print "mounting nfs drives\n";
system "/etc/init.d/portmap start";
system "/bin/mount -t nfs -a";
}
}
sub stop
{
foreach my $device (@{$devices})
{
system "/etc/init.d/net." . $device . " stop";
}
}
unless ($ARGV[0]) { print "either stop or start\n"; }
elsif ($ARGV[0] eq "stop") { stop(); }
elsif ($ARGV[0] eq "start") { start(); } |
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ocbMaurice
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| Posted: Sat Dec 04, 2010 2:15 am Post subject: |
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| ewaller wrote: | | Sorry, I missed the VPN question. I don't think wicd will take care of that. I think NetworkManager will. I bounce back and forth between the two, but I don't have a machine with NetworkManager on it at this time. |
No problem. I may also look into NetworkManager.
I'm just puzzled why I cannot find any solution to this particular problem, as it seems to be such a cool feature. Ok, it only applies to people who actually have a openvpn server. And I see that it needs quite a bit of logic (mostly to determine when to start openvpn, so you have to configure what you consider your local lan). But it should be possible to implement this "use case". It's just that I like the idea of being able to mount my local samba shares, nfs mounts, vnc sessions, etc. whenever I have a internet connection. I can do it manually, so why shouldn't it be possible automatically?
OK, enough for tonight 
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