NetworkManager, openswan and l2tp

[Avesh Agarwal]

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
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Thanks and Regards
Avesh