[Bug 872824] Re: Network-manager locks up when adding strongSwan VPN connection

[Tom Metro]

Here are the steps to install the 12.10 binaries on 12.04:

% wget http://launchpadlibrarian.net/108979339/network-manager-strongswan_1.3.0-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb
% wget http://launchpadlibrarian.net/108979332/strongswan-nm_4.5.2-1.5ubuntu2_amd64.deb
% wget http://launchpadlibrarian.net/108979331/strongswan-ikev2_4.5.2-1.5ubuntu2_amd64.deb
% wget http://launchpadlibrarian.net/108979327/libstrongswan_4.5.2-1.5ubuntu2_amd64.deb
% sudo dpkg -i libstrongswan_4.5.2-1.5ubuntu2_amd64.deb
% sudo dpkg -i strongswan-ikev2_4.5.2-1.5ubuntu2_amd64.deb
% sudo dpkg -i strongswan-nm_4.5.2-1.5ubuntu2_amd64.deb
% sudo dpkg -i network-manager-strongswan_1.3.0-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb

I can confirm this gets you past the hang and lets the config dialog
appear. I can't confirm that strongswan itself is functional, as the
other end of the connection I'm testing requires a pre-shared key, and
the strongswan wiki[1] page on the Network Manager plugin notes that,
"PSK is not supported, as it is considered insecure if the secrets are
not strong enough." (So PSK is supported by strongswan (as documented
elsewhere), just not by the Network Manager plugin. Thanks for the value
judgment.)

1. http://wiki.strongswan.org/projects/strongswan/wiki/NetworkManager

Reinstalling openswan.

 -Tom

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  Network-manager locks up when adding strongSwan VPN connection

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