Bug 1227710 - NetworkManager-openvpn must use --data-ciphers for OpenVPN >= 2.6
Summary: NetworkManager-openvpn must use --data-ciphers for OpenVPN >= 2.6
Status: NEW
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Product: openSUSE Tumbleweed
Classification: openSUSE
Component: Network (show other bugs)
Version: Current
Hardware: Other Other
: P5 - None : Normal (vote)
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Reported: 2024-07-12 12:25 UTC by John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Modified: 2024-07-12 12:25 UTC (History)
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Description John Paul Adrian Glaubitz 2024-07-12 12:25:29 UTC 
Recently, one of my OpenVPN connections stopped working with every connection attempt timing out.

After some debugging and research, I figured out that the reason is that OpenVPN 2.6 deprecated the "--cipher" option and replaced it with "--data-ciphers".

There is an upstream bug report which tracks the issue:

> https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/NetworkManager-openvpn/-/issues/97

While there have been changes made to the code to address this issue,

> https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/NetworkManager-openvpn/-/commit/963b71a83ee18728bb3707945b327cff137b2b57
> https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/NetworkManager-openvpn/-/commit/020ab0c4b872fa5415ed1a5e682acb3343c7b9f3

the issue doesn't seem to be resolved yet as my own experiences and the comments of other users in the above upstream bug report suggest.