Re: VPN API

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Tue, 2007-12-04 at 15:03 -0600, Casey Harkins wrote:
> I understand that the VPN API is currently in flux, but am looking for 
> any documentation on the current API or the direction the API is going. 
> (Or is this all just locked up in someone's head).
> 
> NetworkManager-openvpn on Fedora 8 is broken. I'm happy to try to whip 
> it into shape, but have no familiarity with how all of the 
> NetworkManager pieces fit together, especially how NetworkManager calls 
> out to the VPN plugins.
> 
> Are either the vpnc or pptp plugins being kept up to date with API 
> changes? If so, at least I have known working code to work from.

vpnc is; and upstream openvpn has already been fixed up to conform to
the new API bits.  Nobody's been around to test it yet.  What we
probably should do is to build what's upstream for Fedora, push it out
(it can't possibly be _less_ broken than whats in F8 already) and wait
for the bug reports.

Dan