Bug 219003

Summary:	NetworkManager-vpnc missing from RHEL 5
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5	Reporter:	Russell Harrison <fedora>
Component:	NetworkManager	Assignee:	Christopher Aillon <caillon>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	5.0	CC:	jrb, riek, tao
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Bug Blocks:	227613

Description Russell Harrison 2006-12-09 00:47:02 UTC

Description of problem:
In fact there doesn't seem to be a VPN client of any type in RHEL-5.  Obviously
any client working away from their office will need a secure connection method.
 The various vpn pluggins to NetworkManager are the obvious (and most user
friendly) way to accomplish this.

Comment 1 Christopher Aillon 2006-12-18 19:43:25 UTC

*** Bug 220076 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2 Matěj Cepl 2007-02-27 17:05:18 UTC

All these packages are in Fedora/extras (both vpnc and NM-vpnc). Planned
solution for this problem is EPEL (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/), which
is worked on, and currently you can just add Extras repo to your
/etc/yum.repos.d -- see http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/UsingExtras (not
sure about changes in support of your RHEL, but it shouldn't affect you AFAIK).

Comment 3 RHEL Program Management 2007-03-21 23:23:09 UTC

This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in a Red
Hat Enterprise Linux maintenance release.  Product Management has requested
further review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for potential
inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Update release for currently deployed
products.  This request is not yet committed for inclusion in an Update
release.

Comment 4 Matěj Cepl 2007-05-18 22:46:25 UTC

Just that comment 2 is wrong -- you can just add Extras to RHEL 5, because
pretty soon (at least with release of FC7) Fedora Extras will be out of sync
with RHEL libraries.

Comment 5 Matěj Cepl 2007-05-18 23:08:50 UTC

s/you can/you cannot/
oh well

Comment 6 Daniel Riek 2007-05-19 22:42:32 UTC

vpnc is not officially supported by cisco and not in RHEL. Therefore
NetworkManager-vpnc can not be in RHEL. It would qualify for EPEL, I think.
Someone would need to drive that in the community.

Comment 8 RHEL Program Management 2007-05-19 23:01:08 UTC

Product Management has reviewed and declined this request.  You may appeal this
decision by reopening this request.