GUI option for automatically reconnecting on failure?

[jonesmz]

I sometimes use networkmanager-l2tp when on an incredibly flakey internet connection. It can cut out for up to a minute on a regular basis.

When that happens, the VPN connection disconnects, and remains disconnected.

I don't see a GUI open for having Network Manager automatically attempt to reconnect.

Is this something that could be added?

[dkosovic]

nm-connection-editor and some other GUI frontends don't expose the NetworkManager vpn.persistent property as a check box. As a workaround you could use nmcli to set it.

To list the VPN connection names :

nmcli con show

To show all the properties of a connection including vpn.persistent and connection.autoconnect-retries, issue:

nmcli connection show <connection name>

To set vpn.persistent and connection.autoconnect-retries, issue:

nmcli connection modify <connection name> connection.autoconnect-retries 3
nmcli connection modify <connection name> vpn.persistent yes