Orphaned: vpnc

[Rudolf Kastl]

2011/9/4 Christian Krause <chkr at fedoraproject.org>:
> Hi David,
>
> On 08/31/2011 09:37 AM, Woodhouse, David wrote:
>> On Wed, 2011-08-31 at 02:42 +0200, Christian Krause wrote:
>
>>> I have looked at the list of open bugs for vpnc and it looks like that
>>> there are a couple of packaging issues, some problems with the
>>> vpnc-script and some other issues which may require some upstream
>>> help.
>>
>> Are there any problems with vpnc-script that *aren't* fixed by simply
>> updating to the one in
>> http://git.infradead.org/users/dwmw2/vpnc-scripts.git ?
>
> I have looked at the git repository and I'm unsure about one change:
>
> The commit:
> http://git.infradead.org/users/dwmw2/vpnc-scripts.git/commitdiff/ea98b094e8f75fcd696db81bc6c5160dc67b4e4f
>
>
> seems to fix https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=693235
> (negative MTU) in case "ip route ... " does not report the mtu.
>
> However, at least on my systems, "ip route ..." does never return the
> mtu in its output and so the script will always use the hard-coded
> fallback value 1412 as MTU.
>
> The proposed patch attached to the bug report (
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=515615 ) uses a different
> approach:
> It extracts the actual interface via "ip route" and retrieves the MTU
> via "ip link show $interface".
>
> What do you think about this patch?

What does upstream think about the patch?

>
>
> Best regards,
> Christian
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