VPN

[Darren Critchley]

Matt Zimmerman wrote:

>On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 07:41:14PM -0700, Darren Critchley wrote:
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>>Matt Zimmerman wrote:
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>>>Future release goals are at http://wiki.ubuntulinux.org/HoaryHedgehog
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>>in other words no plans for any sort of vpn support.
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>It has been discussed, but as yet no one has proposed a concrete goal.
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Well I would suggest openswan as the core ipsec component, unless 
someone can come up with a better project. Openswan took over where 
freeswan left off and it is a pretty good ipsec client.

>>Is Hoary on a feature freeze now?
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>Hoary development has not even begun; we are working to release Warty.
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So Warty is pretty much wrapped up then - correct?

>>If not, I would be interested in working/adding on the openswan 
>>implementation as well as a GUI for it.
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>Great!  What exactly do you have in mind?
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Well, initally getting the Hoary kernel patched with openswan would be a 
great start, this would at least give us command line tools to get a vpn 
going.
I am not sure what Gnome uses for its graphical environment, I believe 
it is KDE that is GTK based, and Gnome uses QT? Please correct me here.
Can the wxWidgets be used to generate a GUI app under Gnome?

In the meantime, I will attempt to patch and recompile the current 
kernel for Warty and see if I can get ipsec working.

I guess a tiered approach would be appropriate, take small steps with 
the final goal being a GUI based VPN configuration tool, looking at 
Hoary's timeline, I think there is a fair bit of time to work on this.

Is the Gconf tool going to be staying around? As a stop gap measure, I 
think that should be able to be used to configure the vpn initially.

And given that this is a desktop distribution, I would assume we are 
only interested in a "Roadwarrior" type connection to a remote lan? I do 
not see the need to do a gateway type connection (at least in the GUI).

I look forward to your comments.
Darren