Review Request: Support for importing/exporting OpenVPN connections

[Ilia Kats]

Hi,

I just tested it with vpnc, nm-applet then adds X-NM-Routes=route1
route2 to the file. Note however that the routes consist only of
destination/prefix, no gateway or metric are saved (looking at the
exporter source, this is by design). In total the vpnc plugin knows the
following additinal entries:  X-NM-Use-NAT-T, X-NM-Force-NAT-T,
X-NM-SaveGroupPassword, X-NM-Routes. So no static IPs or DNS servers so
far, although additional X-NM-entries couldn't do much harm if we were
to add them ourselves. The OpenVPN plugin does not appear to be able to
handle anything apart from the VPN specific settings. However, as
comments in OpenVPN files definitely exist and are prefixed with # or ;,
it shoud be possible to add routing, DNS and IP export/import ourselves.

Ilia


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: Review Request: Support for importing/exporting OpenVPN
connections
Date: 26.07.2011 16:12:52 -0300
From: Lamarque Vieira Souza <lamarque at gmail.com>
To: Rajeesh K Nambiar
<rajeeshknambiar at gmail.com>,kde-networkmanager at kde.org
>
> Hi,
>
>
> Today I have noticed that the import/export code only exports VPN
> specific configurations, but some configurations (such as static
> routes, aditional DNS name servers, etc) are also very important to
> make the connection work. I thought we could add those configurations
> as comments in the exported files. What do you think? Do you know how
> nm-applet handles those configurations?
>
>
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