Re: Novell VPN support

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Tue, 2005-12-20 at 14:08 -0500, Robert Love wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-12-20 at 08:32 -0700, Preggna S wrote:
> 
> > The attached first patch makes the tunnel device optional in the core
> > NetworkManager code. This is because, the IPsec based VPNs do not depend
> > on  tunnel device.
> 
> Looks fine to me.  The vpnc client required an interface to be bound as
> the "tunnel device," but IPsec does not have this requirement (due to
> in-kernel use of the IPsec interface).  This seems an easy way to
> rectify the situation.
> 
> Dan?  Okay for you?
> 
> I attached a version of the patch with a couple of coding style changes,
> rediffed against HEAD.

Yep, I've been aware that this (and OpenSWAN too) wouldn't be using a
tunnel interface for a while, thanks for working on this.  Looks good.

Dan