Re: nm-openswan is alive again!

[Tomáš Hnyk <tomashnyk gmail com>]

On Sun, 10 Jun 2007 01:46:15 +0200, Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com> wrote:

> On Sat, 2007-06-09 at 18:03 -0400, steve wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Just a quick post to inform anyone who cares, that I've finished my
> > employment transition, re-created my development environment and I've
> > re-started work on the openswan vpn plugin.
> >
> > I've made two design changes to allow for multiple concurrent vpn
> > connections (in future releases) as it will be required for my new job.
> > I'll post again when I've got a tar ball for others to test.
>
> Awesome!  You might want to look at an email recently sent about a new
> API for VPNs to see if it would also work for openswan.
>
> "Proposal for a new VPN DBUS interface" - May 8th
>
> Dan
>
> > If anyone feels inclined to help with the effort (which is mainly bug
> > fixing at this point), feel free to contact me.
> >
> > Steve.
Does this also mean that it will possible to use VPN even if the network  
connection is not managed through NM but is set to static as described  
here:  
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/115750 - or  
is that only Ubuntu thing?
Tomas