Martin Willi <martin strongswan org> writes: > Hi, > >> challenges were interactive authentication and multiple, concurrent >> connections -- this is absolutely needed because of the way openswan >> handles the case of multiple subnets over a single tunnel. > > I was facing similar problems in my strongSwan IKEv2 plugin [1]. > Interactive authentication is difficult and multiple active connection > is currently almost impossible to implement. I decided to strip these > features, as in most road-warrior scenarios this is not so important. > >> So I checked out the latest rev from svn trunk, but I didnt see the >> API changes you mentioned. Is the rewritten code you 'shelved' even >> avaiable yet? > > There have been some recent API changes: > - VPN secrets in separate settings (r4031) > - UUID, not connection ID is passed to auth dialog (r4053) > >> >> I tried to build anyway, but I'm having a hell of a time getting all >> the dependencies satisfied. I switched to ubuntu this year, and while >> I love the stability, the software packages are dated and setting up a >> sane build environment seems to be a big first step to working on the >> 0.7 code tree. > > There is a NetworkManager PPA available at launchpad [2]. Just install > all the dev packages and you are ready to go. I'm also running a > strongSwan PPA [3] for my NM plugin, so you might want to check that out > to get another example how things work. > Please consider adding the patches listed at http://wiki.strongswan.org/ticket/57 and the patch at http://bugs.debian.org/470721 . The latter has already been rolled into the Debian strongswan package. - dds
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