Re: OpenVPN port selection

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Thu, 2005-12-08 at 20:24 -0500, Neal Becker wrote:
> Tim Niemueller wrote:
> 
> > George Billios wrote:
> >> Tim,
> > 
> > Hi George.
> > 
> >> Could you also add a port option for openvpn?
> > 
> > Hmm, the only thing where it is really useful is the shared secret
> > connection type, since there every connection has a different port...
> > 
> > For the rest this shouldn't matter since OpenVPN got a port assigned
> > from IANA. The vpnc-plugin doesn't have that feature, either.
> 
> I use openvpn with an alternate port.  The IANA was added late.  Some
> (many?) of us are still using old port settings, because we have existing
> firewalls, and are not necessarily able to change them.  Really would be a
> help.

The other alternative here is allowing users to modify the GConf
settings for the VPN config, but not putting that info in the VPN config
UI that's provided.  It allows advanced users who really care to do what
they want, but doesn't clutter the UI with options 80 or 90% of people
won't really need.

You can already do this with the vpnc service, not quite sure about
OpenVPN.  With the vpnc service, it's simply adding lines that would go
in vpnc.conf into the GConf config.

Dan