Re: 2 questions...

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Mon, 2005-07-25 at 15:35 -0500, Steev wrote:
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> Joris Vuffray wrote:
> > I just want to have NetworkManager initiate the connection b4 I login in
> > gdm.
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> > I have vpnc installed and the two nm-vpnc-service* installed
> > in /usr/bin. ("Disconnect VPN..." is not highlighted).
> > It should be a bug on Gentoo. I wonder if someone got it running on this
> > distro...
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> > Rgds,
> > Joris
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> This is most likely a Gentoo issue.  I have a patch or 2 waiting till
> after the first patch I sent gets applied (one removes the nscd
> invalidate host cache.)  I haven't looked too far into the vpn section
> with Gentoo as it seems that vpnc is geared more towards having a Cisco
> 3000 or something along those lines (this is what I was told by a friend
> who uses vpn's at work) - Is there going to be support for OpenVPN, or
> is it in there, and I am just missing it and need to apply another patch
> to the Gentoo backend?

vpnc works exclusively with Cisco products, yes (I'm fairly sure).
However, the VPN support in NM is built with more than 1 VPN client in
mind, and somebody said they were looking at OpenVPN support as well.
The intention is to have anybody write a VPN connector that hooks into
NetworkManager.

Dan