Monday, June 26, 2017

Start VPN from command line in Fedora

Use nmcli command


[user1@localhost ~]$ nmcli c 
NAME            UUID                                  TYPE            DEVICE 
eno1            c9----------91  802-3-ethernet  eno1   
virbr0          fb----------a3  bridge          virbr0 
Canada          67----------3d  vpn             --     
US-East         b3----------5a  vpn             --     
United-Kingdom  eb----------5f  vpn             --     


[user1@localhost ~]$ nmcli c up b3----------5a
VPN connection successfully activated (D-Bus active path: /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/ActiveConnection/1)


[user1@localhost ~]$ nmcli c down b3----------5a
Connection 'US-East' successfully deactivated (D-Bus active path: /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/ActiveConnection/1)