Bug 110658 – vpnc can't find out correct metric

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Quincy 2005-10-27 16:48:29 UTC]

I recently emerged vpnc 0.3.3 and i can't connect to my favourite vpn. I'm
running  a stable system with iproute2-2.6.11.20050310-r1 and vpnc gives me the
following error message when connecting:

Error: either "to" is duplicate, or "metric10" is a garbage.



Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Install vpnc-0.3.3
2.try to connect to a vpn
3.



Expected Results:  
On a ~x86 system everything runs fine. There iproute2-2.6.11.20050330-r1 is
running and seems to produce a compatible output.

In the vpnc mailing list the bug is mentioned "from the other side"

http://lists.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/pipermail/vpnc-devel/2005-May/000657.html

There is a problem with the iproute output on old/new systems, so if you install
vpnc-0.3.3 it soul dperhaps depend on the new iproute version

[Comment 1 Tobias Sager 2005-10-28 08:55:23 UTC]

Created attachment 71640 [details, diff]
vpnc-script-ipmetric.patch

I confirm this here. Attached patch fixes the vpnc-script with the "official"
solution.
So, please either apply this patch or depend on a later ip version.

[Comment 2 Tobias Sager 2005-11-23 07:59:01 UTC]

This really is major. Why not fix it?

[Comment 3 Hanno Böck 2005-12-19 20:07:10 UTC]

done