Re: VPNC plugin on Ubuntu 8.04: disable DPD?

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Sat, 2008-06-07 at 12:51 -0400, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-06-05 at 08:36 -0400, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> 
>         On Thu, 2008-06-05 at 12:19 +0200, Marc Luethi wrote:
>         > Hi all!
>         > [...]
>         https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager-vpnc/+bug/206000
>         > 
>         > 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.
> 
> The other thing I've noticed about this issue is that nobody on the
> NetworkManager team ever sees fit to comment when it comes up on the
> list.

Mainly because I don't have quite enough bandwidth to deal with every
issue right when it comes up, but it's probably useful to say "This
option is probably a good idea, but I need to finish piece X of
NetworkManager first before I can look at it" anyway.

I updated that bug report BTW.

Dan

>         
>         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
>         > 
>         > 
>         > 
>         
>