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
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Thanks and Regards
Avesh