On 08/26/2011 11:50 -0400, Dan Williams wrote: 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 Is there any strong reason for not compiling the current openswan with HAVE_STATSD and making all options available that offers networkmanager-openswan-1.7.0? I think it would indeed be very cool! Eberhard -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
