On Jan 11, 2008 6:38 PM, Jos Vos <jos@xxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > The Fedora OpenVPN package starts/stops all VPN connections together > via a single init script. The classical way of handling interfaces > in Red Hat / Fedora distros is to support new interface types via > ifup/ifdown scripts. This is also the way it worked in the past for > CIPE. In some situations this is a much better way to control your > connections (i.e. being able to start/stop them separately). > > I see in <http://openvpn.net/archive/openvpn-devel/2004-11/msg00042.html> > that some work on this has already been done in this area. > > My questions: > > - Is there a technical reason to not handle OpenVPN connections this > way in Fedora or is it just that it was decided to stay more close > to the generic OpenVPN startup script? > > - Does anyone know of recent work in this area? I guess the example > scripts in the thread I listed above might not work as-is with the > current Fedora and OpenVPN versions. > > - Is there any interest in including (and maintaining) this in Fedora's > OpenVPN package, maybe just as an alternative startup method, > assuming someone wants to contribute the initial implementation? > Personally I would like to see this and the mounting/unmounting of network shares wired up to NetworkManager. For my purposes, NM doesn't quite cut it as when I change wired to wireless, I need to unmount shares, shut down vpn, change network, start up vpn, mount shares again. Consequently I have some ugly scripts to do this work for me, but I would be much happier if NM would do the job for me. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
