Bug 674143

Summary: Allow specifying advanced VPNC settings, like Application Version
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Tore Anderson <tore>
Component: NetworkManager-vpncAssignee: Dan Williams <dcbw>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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[PATCH] ui: add entry for Application version to Advanced options none

Description Tore Anderson 2011-01-31 18:58:46 UTC 
Description of problem:

I cannot connect to some VPN servcers using NetworkManager-vpnc, as it does not allow me to modify all the necessary parameters. I believe that Application Version is crucial, possibly others too. Using VPNC from the command line with the configuration file included below works fine.

Now I don't mean to suggest that all the possible knobs should be exposed in the GUI. However, if there was a way to set them with gconf-editor or similar, that would be quite adequate. I can see that there is mention of NM_VPNC_KEY_APP_VERSION in the code, but I have found no way of overriding the default application version at run-time, unfortunately.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

NetworkManager-vpnc-0.8.1-1.fc14.x86_64

Additional info:

This is the (anonymised) vpnc.conf file that I can use to successfully connect from the command line:

IPSec gateway <omitted>
IPSec ID <omitted>
IPSec secret <omitted>
IKE Authmode psk
NAT Traversal Mode cisco-udp
Domain 
Vendor cisco
Application version Cisco Systems VPN Client 4.0.1(Rel):Windows. WinNT
Interface mode tun
Cisco UDP Encapsulation Port 0
Local Port 500
Debug 1
Xauth username <omitted>
Comment 1 Jirka Klimes 2012-07-12 14:47:11 UTC 
Created attachment 597828 [details]
[PATCH] ui: add entry for Application version to Advanced options

I guess it makes sense to add "Version" entry into Advanced dialog as we already have Identification section there.
Comment 2 Dan Williams 2012-07-17 14:32:49 UTC 
Yeah, looks good.
Comment 3 Jirka Klimes 2012-07-17 14:40:11 UTC 
Patch from comment #1 applied upstream:
383f3dc1d85c3b0cdab0e26bed92f2095743c751
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