EasyVPN

[jon latorre]

El dom, 04-06-2006 a las 00:56 +0200, Soren Hansen escribió:
> On Sat, Jun 03, 2006 at 02:32:54PM -0700, Anderson Lizardo wrote:
> > > In short, it proposes the inclusion of the vpn plugins from
> > > networkmanager cvs along with a small change to NetworkManager,
> > > namely allowing it to fiddle with /etc/resolv.conf so that VPN
> > > support will be complete.
> > The spec URL on the Wiki page was wrong, so I fixed it while reading
> > the spec :)
> 
> Yes, I saw. Thanks. :-)
> 
> > Regarding chaging /etc/resolv.conf, maybe resolvconf[1] could be used
> > in this case?
> 
> 1. The kind of errors people have had with NetworkManager handling
> resolv.conf seem to have occurred with resolvconf as well.
> 
> 2. The plugins would need to be changed to talk to resolvconf. I really
> think that we'd have a better chance of success if everyone is working
> towards the same goal: Perfecting NetworkManager's handling of
> resolv.conf. This is also in the interest of the networkmanager
> developers so they can also be helpful in this process.
> 
> > I use network-manager and vpnc, but I've never used network-manager's
> > vpnc plugin. I'd like to help with testing if necessary.
> 
> Great.
> 
> I have the plugins packaged (along with a network-manager that is
> allowed to touch resolv.conf) in my repository:
> 
> deb http://www.linux2go.dk/ubuntu dapper main
> 

Thanks for this! I have been waiting for nm openvpn support in ubuntu
for a long. I have recompiled the package for powerpc and it runs great!
If you need help testing it or in any other way I'll pleased to hel you.

-- 
jon latorre <moebius at etxea.net>
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