how to connect through VPN in jaunty

[Derek Broughton]

Thorny wrote:

> On Fri, 01 May 2009 09:09:52 -0400, Brian McKee posted:
> [...]
>> 
>> (note to self, figure out how to restart network manager cleanly)
>> 
> 
> This is just a WAG brian but, I have a note to myself in my system log to
> try restarting the dbus service next time I try what you detailed, a live
> change to NM. It might be worth a try and might be able to avoid the
> reboot. I think dbus talks to NetworkMangler.

That used to be what you had to do (actually, you could explicitly tell dbus 
to restart NetworkManager, but restarting dbus was usually easier),

Since Intrepid, you can "sudo /etc/init.d/NetworkManager restart"