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. Paul _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
