Hi Paul, On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 4:23 PM, Paul Wouters <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
Did this ever happen for the GSOC? Peter _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
