Re: New User - probably answered questions, but search is down....

["Darren Albers" <dalbers gmail com>]

On 4/22/07, Greg Oliver <greg oliver cistera com> wrote:
> Just a few      uick questions.  I have always (well since its inception)
> been a Gentoo user.  Network-Manager was never really friendly with it.
> I wanted to "quickly" try out x86_64 arch, so I images my gentoo
> partition and installed ubuntu 7.04.  Network manager works quite well
> for em as a simple interface switcher/ vpn controller (what it was
> written for).
>
> o  WPA variants on some wireless network are giving me issues.  No big
> deal, I can command line them out and get them to work
>
> Are there plans for any of the following features?
>
> 1.   Ability to connect to wireless and wired connections
> simultaneously.  I do this at work daily to be internal to our resources
> as well as on the internet so vpns into our clients work.  I inderstand
> that enreies for routes would need to be managed much like the vpnc
> options, but I do that already.
>
> 2.  Ability to connect to more than one vpn simultaneously - ie, pptp
> and vpnc.  I mostly use vpnc, but fall back to cisco's client as vpnc
> only works with about 80% of cisco's products in my experience.
>
> I guess I could not find a roadmap, so answering here.
>
> TIA,
>
> Greg

Item #1 is slated for 0.7:
http://live.gnome.org/NetworkManagerToDo

Item #2 might be possible with the changes listed in #1 but I am
pretty sure it would require changes to the VPN architecture and the
plugins themselves but someone more knowledgeable about them can say
for sure.