Re: [ANNOUNCE] Release of NetworkManager-l2tp 0.1

[Paul Wouters <paul xelerance com>]

On Mon, 17 Jan 2011, Alexey Torkhov wrote:

> > It would definitely drag in openswan as dependancy even if not used. But
> > I think I would prefer that over having two different plugins.
>
> This will bring there advanced ppp settings dialog (similar to one in
> pptp plugin), pppd plugin/etc. Also, a requested feature is to support
> openl2tpd.
>
> Won't this unnecessary bloat openswan-nm plugin?

I'd still prefer that over two different possibly conflicting plugins.

> And also from user perspective: openswan has more options concerning
> ipsec whenever l2tp/pptp plugin have simple interface where user have
> generally supply only vpn gateway address/username/password. Combining
> all this will result in something monstrous.

The L2TP menu hides most of those options, so the user is also just
presented with the gateway address/username/password (and PSK)

> Alexey