Re: nm vpn plugin api docs?

[Steve Hillier <keyhman gmail com>]

Oie, you've been busy. Well you may recall I attempted an openswan  
plugin a year ago but ran into some formidible hurdles, some from API  
limitations, some from the nature of ipsec (specifically openswan) on  
Linux.

Well, I've got some vacation and the desire to code in something other  
than bash or java, so I'm gonna try again. I think i know how to  
handle openswans requirements, and from what you said, I'll likely  
need to use the latest rewitten VPN API, as two of my biggest  
challenges were interactive authentication and multiple, concurrent  
connections -- this is absolutely needed because of the way openswan  
handles the case of multiple subnets over a single tunnel.

So I checked out the latest rev from svn trunk, but I didnt see the  
API changes you mentioned. Is the rewritten code you 'shelved' even  
avaiable yet?

I tried to build anyway, but I'm having a hell of a time getting all  
the dependencies satisfied. I switched to ubuntu this year, and while  
I love the stability, the software packages are dated and setting up a  
sane build environment seems to be a big first step to working on the  
0.7 code tree. Funny enough, 0.6x builds fine.

So question 2: is there any simple way (ie : guide) to sandbox a build  
environment that doesn't blow up my working desktop? I'm not having  
much luck thus far.

How do you do it?

Steve


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On 17-Sep-08, at 12:32 AM, Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com> wrote:

> On Mon, 2008-09-15 at 11:50 -0400, Steve Hillier wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> >
> >
> > I’m looking for some documentation to supplement the existing vpn
> > plugin examples. Any VPN API docs available? I can’t seem to find
> > anything online. I know there were extensive changes planned for 0.7,
> > and the wiki does in fact show the vpn api changes to be done, but I
> > still don’t see any docs on the changes themselves. Any help
> > appreciated…
>
> Yeah, not really.  There's introspection data available in
> introspection/ to describe the D-Bus interface, but no real spec as of
> yet.  Any questions I can answer for you in the mean time?
>
> I was rewrote the interface yet again last week (to support multiple
> VPNs and interactive authentication) but in the interest of keeping a
> 0.7 release in 2008, I decided to shelve it for now.  So there are 3
> implementations of it to choose from so far.
>
> Dan