Re: openvpn needs more settings

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Sun, 2006-10-01 at 22:14 -0400, Adam Pavelec wrote:
> On 10/2/2006, "Steve Wray" <steve wray cwa co nz> wrote:
> 
> >How about giving the option to pull in a regular, normal openvpn config
> >file and stuff that into the NetworkManager settings? That would be just
> >brilliant...
> 
> I second this motion!  As it stands, I cannot get the OpenVPN plugin to
> interoperate due to a very simple config that I cannot seem to replicate
> with NM:
> 
> remote my.openvpn.server
> port 1194
> dev tap
> nobind
> tls-client
> ca ca.crt
> cert my.openvpn.server.crt
> key my.openvpn.server.key
> pull
> verb 4
> 
> It /would/ be brilliant if we could simply point NM:OpenVPN to a .ovpn
> config file!

The vpnc plugin has an 'import' option to pull in Cisco .pcf files, so
there's really no reason that the OpenVPN plugin can't have one.  Of
course, it needs to support all the 4,000,000 options which OpenVPN
supports, but that's actually  not that hard.

Dan