NetworkManager, openswan and l2tp

[Eberhard Schruefer]

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!

>> >  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?


Eberhard