On Fri, 2011-08-26 at 11:50 -0400, Avesh Agarwal wrote: > 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. Would be cool if we could add it though... TBH I'm not actually familiar with how the layering works with L2TP, since I thought it was more standalone like PPTP but just somehow better. My lack of knowledge about L2TP could fill a barrel, simply because I haven't had time to investigate. If others know more, by all means, help us out with patches. Dan > > > > Eberhard > -- > Thanks and Regards > Avesh > -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
