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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Hi,</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>You can always have a look at GoVPN, available at <A HREF="http://govpn.clubnix.net/" TARGET="_blank">http://govpn.clubnix.net/</A></FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>It has debian installers too, and the guy is an Ubuntu user ;-)</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Frans.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>-----Original Message-----</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>From: ubuntu-devel-bounces@lists.ubuntu.com [<A HREF="mailto:ubuntu-devel-bounces@lists.ubuntu.com">mailto:ubuntu-devel-bounces@lists.ubuntu.com</A>] On Behalf Of Bastien Nocera</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Sent: donderdag 7 juli 2005 21:56</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>To: z</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Cc: R S Gill; ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Subject: Re: VPN GUI</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 20:42 +0300, z wrote:</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> This is very important for me too, because at home I connect to the</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> internet by connecting to a VPN and it was a real pain to configure it</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> with the current tools provided, at least for me. there were no native</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> packages, at least by that time. now i know about a program called</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> network manager, but it's something connected to novell and it has</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> only rpm packages and i had trouble installing it from source. it</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> would be nice if it's in ubuntu too.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>It will be in Ubuntu, and the main developers are Red Hat people (not</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Novell, you're confusing with the old hacky netapplet).</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Note that NetworkManager only has support for the Cisco VPNs (using</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>vpnc), but support for other VPN systems should be easy enough to add,</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>via the plugin system.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>-- </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Bastien Nocera <hadess@hadess.net></FONT>
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