Re: Generic IPSEC vpn plugin

[Peter Robinson <pbrobinson gmail com>]

Hi Paul,

On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 4:23 PM, Paul Wouters <paul xelerance com> wrote:
> On Tue, 7 Apr 2009, Peter Robinson wrote:
>
>> Is there, or is there planned, a generic IPSEC vpn plugin for
>> NetworkManager? I can see support for the cisco vpnc client, and then
>> some other various ones. I would have thought with the site-to-site
>> ipsec and client side stuff being the major enterprise way of doing
>> it, and the kernel having full IPSEC support that there would have
>> been a generic ipsec plugin ages ago. And one with profiles for most
>> of the common hardware out there
>> (cisco/netscreen/alteon/checkpoint/fortigate etc) would be very cool
>> :-)
>
> Openswan has a GSoC project submission for this. One of the issues is
> the architecture of NM, which focusses on user-based, and the the
> architecture of ipsec, which is host-based. This creates some issues,
> one of which is where and how to store and pass user/host credentials.
>
> By next week we should know if this project is starting. We did get a
> few applications for this.

Did this ever happen for the GSOC?

Peter