Re: [Openvpn-devel] First post and an alternative idea for OpenVPN startup on Linux

2004-11-19 Thread Paul Iadonisi
On Thu, 2004-11-18 at 16:06 +0200, Doncho N. Gunchev wrote: > > Just an idea, would it be acceptable to you bouth if it is done like > this: > --- > TYPE=OpenVPN > DEVICETYPE=tap1 # or tun1 > OpenVPNCFG=/etc/openvpn/client.conf # or /etc/openvpn/server.openvpn > USERCTL=no # yes? - use RH/FC'

Re: [Openvpn-devel] First post and an alternative idea for OpenVPN startup on Linux

2004-11-18 Thread Paul Iadonisi
And please forgive me for misspelling your name. Doh! -- -Paul Iadonisi Senior System Administrator Red Hat Certified Engineer / Local Linux Lobbyist Ever see a penguin fly? -- Try Linux. GPL all the way: Sell services, don't lease secrets

Re: [Openvpn-devel] First post and an alternative idea for OpenVPN startup on Linux

2004-11-18 Thread Paul Iadonisi
On Thu, 2004-11-18 at 05:55 -0700, James Yonan wrote: > The main problem I have with this approach is that it creates a new > configuration interface for OpenVPN which must be documented and > maintained. It also creates problems for people who want to migrate to > and from the distribution where

Re: [Openvpn-devel] First post and an alternative idea for OpenVPN startup on Linux

2004-11-18 Thread Doncho N. Gunchev
On 2004 11 18 (Thursday) 14:55, James Yonan wrote: > On Thu, 18 Nov 2004, Paul Iadonisi wrote: > > > On Thu, 2004-11-18 at 07:20 +0100, Mathias Sundman wrote: > > > > [snip] > > > > > I think it's a good idea to have simple "redhat look-alike" scripts to > > > start / stop individual openvpn tu

Re: [Openvpn-devel] First post and an alternative idea for OpenVPN startup on Linux

2004-11-18 Thread James Yonan
On Thu, 18 Nov 2004, Paul Iadonisi wrote: > On Thu, 2004-11-18 at 07:20 +0100, Mathias Sundman wrote: > > [snip] > > > I think it's a good idea to have simple "redhat look-alike" scripts to > > start / stop individual openvpn tunnels, to make life easier for users. > > > > But, I hounestly dis

Re: [Openvpn-devel] First post and an alternative idea for OpenVPN startup on Linux

2004-11-18 Thread Leonard Isham
On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 03:01:31 -0500, Paul Iadonisi wrote: > On Thu, 2004-11-18 at 07:20 +0100, Mathias Sundman wrote: > > [snip] > > > I think it's a good idea to have simple "redhat look-alike" scripts to > > start / stop individual openvpn tunnels, to make life easier for users. > > > > But, I

Re: [Openvpn-devel] First post and an alternative idea for OpenVPN startup on Linux

2004-11-18 Thread Paul Iadonisi
On Thu, 2004-11-18 at 07:20 +0100, Mathias Sundman wrote: [snip] > I think it's a good idea to have simple "redhat look-alike" scripts to > start / stop individual openvpn tunnels, to make life easier for users. > > But, I hounestly dislike the idea of introducing a new config file format > li

Re: [Openvpn-devel] First post and an alternative idea for OpenVPN startup on Linux

2004-11-17 Thread Mathias Sundman
On Wed, 17 Nov 2004, Paul Iadonisi wrote: > While working with various setups, I felt there might be a better way > to start up the VPN(s) with a little more granularity. In fact, at > least in the case of Fedora Core (2 and 3 in my case), I thought it > might be a good idea to integrate it i

Re: [Openvpn-devel] First post and an alternative idea for OpenVPN startup on Linux

2004-11-17 Thread Paul Iadonisi
And here they are -- -Paul Iadonisi Senior System Administrator Red Hat Certified Engineer / Local Linux Lobbyist Ever see a penguin fly? -- Try Linux. GPL all the way: Sell services, don't lease secrets ifup-openvpn Description: application/shellscript ifdown-openvpn Description: appli

[Openvpn-devel] First post and an alternative idea for OpenVPN startup on Linux

2004-11-17 Thread Paul Iadonisi
Hello, I found out about OpenVPN some time ago, but only started playing with it recently (in the past month or so). I've set up PPTP VPNs between Windows and Linux (not so comfortable with the security of it, though) as well as IPsec using Freeswan aka Openswan (unnecessarily complex, IMO). I