Start/stop of OpenVPN interfaces with ifup/ifdown
Steven Pritchard
steve at silug.org
Mon Jan 14 20:40:14 UTC 2008
On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 08:33:33PM +0000, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-01-12 at 00:38 +0100, Jos Vos wrote:
> > - 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?
A combination of trying to stay close to upstream and lack of time,
honestly.
> > - 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?
I'd be happy to include better initscript integration in the Fedora
package. I just haven't had the time (or sufficient motivation) to
write the code myself.
> Please do. I believe it should have been a condition of the initial
> review of the package. We're supposed to be making a coherent
> distribution, not just packaging up a bunch of software and chucking it
> together on a DVD.
It was brought up at the time, but everyone was saying NetworkManager
was going to take over the world, so making ifup/ifdown work didn't
seem like a terribly high priority. NetworkManager-openvpn has been
around for a while...
Steve
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