UI support for DPD

Bug #112406 reported by Alexander Papaspyrou
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network-manager-vpnc (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: network-manager-vpnc

Currently, network-manager-vpnc lacks UI controls for setting up new DPD support in vpnc-0.40. However, this seems to be a more general issue, not only affecting this package, but also network-manager

In Bug #93413 James Tait correctly stated that the right thing to do here would be to extend network-manager in a way that it can "auto-sense" options from the underlying plugins (such as vpnc) and display them.

This basically boils down to two possible solutions:

1. Extend the network-manager plugin architecture to allow custom configuration dialogs for underlying vpn implementations and add corresponding functionality to the plugins along with custom options (e.g. DPD for vpnc).

pros/cons:
+ allows global and connection-specific settings as well as defining defaults
- implementation effort

2. Add generic options to the client connection setup dialog.

pros/cons:
+ easy to realize
- mixes up general (probably defaultable) options with connection-specific stuff and clutters connection configuration UI

Comments?

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knarf (launchpad-ubuntu-f) wrote :

Given that DPD detection is broken in combination with some peers (see bug #93413, amongst others) it would be good to either have the option to disable DPD alltogether (by setting the timeout value to '0') or to detect these problems and automagically disable DPD when they are encountered. The first is easy but needs an additional pref in the UI (*shock* *horror*), the second is harder and potentially unreliable but should play well with the UI purists who disdain anything configurable.

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Tim Jones (tim-mr-dog) wrote :

The network-manager-vpnc in Fedora has an option to disable DPD, i.e., set it to 0.

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Tim Jones (tim-mr-dog) wrote :

Either UI support for setting local port to 0 (to use a random local port), or just setting local port to 0 always would also be very handy.

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Daniel T Chen (crimsun) wrote :

Is this symptom still reproducible in 8.10 beta?

Changed in network-manager-vpnc:
status: New → Incomplete
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Michael Plump (plumpy) wrote :

It is, yes.

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Victor Vargas (kamus) wrote :

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!

Changed in network-manager-vpnc (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Invalid
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