Start/stop of OpenVPN interfaces with ifup/ifdown
Jos Vos
jos at xos.nl
Fri Jan 11 23:38:41 UTC 2008
Hi,
The Fedora OpenVPN package starts/stops all VPN connections together
via a single init script. The classical way of handling interfaces
in Red Hat / Fedora distros is to support new interface types via
ifup/ifdown scripts. This is also the way it worked in the past for
CIPE. In some situations this is a much better way to control your
connections (i.e. being able to start/stop them separately).
I see in <http://openvpn.net/archive/openvpn-devel/2004-11/msg00042.html>
that some work on this has already been done in this area.
My questions:
- Is there a technical reason to not handle OpenVPN connections this
way in Fedora or is it just that it was decided to stay more close
to the generic OpenVPN startup script?
- Does anyone know of recent work in this area? I guess the example
scripts in the thread I listed above might not work as-is with the
current Fedora and OpenVPN versions.
- Is there any interest in including (and maintaining) this in Fedora's
OpenVPN package, maybe just as an alternative startup method,
assuming someone wants to contribute the initial implementation?
Thanks,
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