On 08/26/2011 05:09 AM, Eberhard Schruefer wrote: > On 08/25/2011 13:57 -0500, Dan Williams wrote: > > On Thu, 2011-08-25 at 11:00 +0200, Eberhard Schruefer wrote: >>>> Hello, >>>>> I need to connect to a site via l2tp/openswan. I can set up >>> openswan and >>>> xl2tpd >>>> manually and this works fine. However, bringing up the connection >>> is not >>>> very >>>> comfortable and it would be much nicer to be able to use the >>>> networkmanager-openswan >>>> plugin. >>>> Unfortunately, l2tp and other 'advanced settings' cannot be >>> selected from >>>> networkmanager-connection-editor. A quick look at the source code of >>>> NetworkManager-openswan-1.7.0 shows that these options are >>> programmed, >>>> but seem not to be available in Fedora 15. >> Which openswan sources are you looking at? > I'm referring to the networkmanager-openswan plugin source written by > Alexander Dorokhov > (hosted on xelerance). It seems that everything necessary to be set > through the UI is there and > also the code for bringing up xl2tpd. However, it looks like that > openswan itself has to be > compiled with HAVE_STATSD. It would be great if we could all have that > in FEDORA! HAVE_STATSD is disabled by openswan upstream by default. If the option is enabled upstream in a future release,it will be in Fedora too. >>>> Will these options eventually be set-able in Fedora? >> It's probable they will be but it might take some work. AFAIK there >> isn't yet an L2TP VPN plugin for NM though I've heard of people working >> on one. >> >>>> Would converting the glade file in NetworkManager-openswan-1.7.0 to >>>> gtkbuilder >>>> and a recompile of networkmanager-openswan suffice? >> As part of the NM 0.9 push we moved the existing NM-openvpn plugin to >> git.gnome.org and cleaned it up, including converting to GtkBuilder. >> But that alone wouldn't magically make L2TP work unless the right >> options were added to the UI. > I think to vaguely remember that these options were available in very > early releases of the openswan > networkmanager plugin, but disappeared in later versions. What was > reason for that? The red hat implementation hosted at git.gnome.org never had L2TP options, and so these option were never in Fedora. > > Eberhard -- Thanks and Regards Avesh -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
