On Thu, 2008-06-05 at 12:19 +0200, Marc Luethi wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> First: If this is the wrong place to ask about the VPNC plugin, please
> tell me to sod off and maybe leave a hint on where else to ask ;-)
>
> After upgrading to Ubuntu 8.04, I am now using NetworkManager 0.6.6 with
> nm-applet 0.6.6, and according to aptitude, I have
>
> network-manager-vpc 0.6.4svn2422-0ubuntu5
> vpnc 0.5.1r275-1
>
> I am running a Cisco PIX501 at home which does not support DPD (and
> probably never will). Now I am affected by this problem:
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager-vpnc/+bug/206000
>
>
> The currently installed vpnc supports disabling of the DPD feature:
>
> marc torch:~$ vpnc --long-help
> [...]
> --dpd-idle <0,10-86400>
> Send DPD packet after not receiving anything for <idle> seconds.
> Use 0 to disable DPD completely (both ways).
> Default: 300
> conf-variable: DPD idle timeout (our side) <0,10-86400>
> [...]
>
> Assuming that network-manager-vpnc is "using" vpnc behind the scenes, is
> there a way (a config file, perhaps?) to make the VPNC plugin set/unset
> this parameter? (I am no programmer - just a user...)
>
> I know that DPD configuration should be possible on a per-connection
> basis, as some VPN configurations will require DPD to be active - while
> others might not.
>
> There have been suggestions to use older versions of
> network-manager-vpnc or different versions of network-manager
> altogether, which is not what I'd like to do.
>
> For now, I'd be happy if I could enable/disable network-manager-vpnc's
> DPD globally.
>
>
> Can this be done?
In Fedora's Bugzilla:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=403661
No action since I filed it last November. I have to run vpnc by hand on
those connections where DPD is an issue.
See also
http://www.ces.clemson.edu/linux/f8-nm-iwl3945-B.shtml
The other vpnc features that it would be good to be able to configure
are NAT traversal mode selection and IPsec obfuscated secret support.
> thanks & best regards
>
>
> Marc
>
>
>
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Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs