Re: VPN API

[Denis Leroy <denis poolshark org>]

Dan Williams wrote:
> 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.

Still the F-8 vpnc has a number of protocol-related issues, such as 
login failures not being reported. It throws a D-bus "failure" signal 
that nobody catches (which seems redundant with the state_change 
signals). Or the "lock" icon sometimes not showing up when it's supposed 
to be. I was looking into that code recently, but didn't really know how 
the pieces were meant to fit together. Any guidance would be helpful, so 
I can work on a patch.