Created attachment 110386 [details]
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-vpnc

ifup-vpnc

Created attachment 110387 [details]
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifdown-vpnc

ifdown-vpnc

It looks reasonable. However, unless we ship vpnc, this should
probably live with the vpnc package in extras.

Reassign to vpnc

Created attachment 110466 [details]
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-vpnc

- support more "tun" devices than "tun0"
- override device with DEVICE=
- make sure no questions get asked with the --no-inter option

Created attachment 110467 [details]
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifdown-vpnc

- don't exit with status = 1 when cleaning up, but do so if no vpnc are running

- fix the "ourself" variable

Updated "docs".

Example configuration file
(/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-tun0_location1):
DEVICE=<device, optional, tun0 by default>
BOOTPROTO=none
ONBOOT=no
USERCTL=yes
DEVICETYPE=vpnc
GATEWAY=<VPN gateway>
IPSECID=<IPSec ID of the network>
USERNAME=<username>
DNS1=<DNS>
DNS2=<backup DNS, optional>
USEUDP=<whether to use Cisco's UDP encapsulation>

A keys-tun0_location in the same directory contains:
IPSECSECRET=<secret of the network>
PASSWORD=<user's password>

Tomas, Bill, what do you reckon, code-wise?

- it should use change_resolv_conf
- I don't like the idea of leaving the password on the filesystem *at all*
- in testing here, it decided to route all the traffic through the
VPN. Which broke things.
- keys-XXX reading is currently broken due to a 'cleanup' from last
october in initscripts. Grrr.
 

Created attachment 110477 [details]
new ifup-vpnc

Some changes:

1) use IPSECGATEWAY, not GATEWAY - GATEWAY can seriously confuse other scripts
2) support DEFROUTE on whether or not to use it as a default route
3) add a PROMPT: - prompt for not-provided info (like, say, password :) )
4) use already existing initscripts facilities for setting the default route &
modifying resolv.conf

Created attachment 110478 [details]
new ifdown-vpnc

> - I don't like the idea of leaving the password on the filesystem
> *at all*

I totally agree. We use campus-wide kerberos passwords here, and it'd
just be too tempting for people to leave their passwords lying around
-- even on machines which might have multiple admins. Sure, someone
with root access and malicious intent could harvest other people's
passwords in other ways, but with this, they could easily be exposed
by accident and without leaving even a slight trace. 

Probably want to s/USER/IPSECUSER/ on the config/script as well, to
avoid collisions with 'normal' bash environment variables.

Bill's version of the scripts won't restore resolv.conf if
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifdown-post isn't modified to restore it:

-if [ "${DEVICETYPE}" = "ppp" -o "${DEVICETYPE}" = "ippp" ]; then
+if [ "${DEVICETYPE}" = "ppp" -o "${DEVICETYPE}" = "ippp" -o "${DEVICETYPE}" =
"vpnc" ]; then

Actually, check the ifdown-post in HEAD; that's more correct.

Tomas, could you check those scripts in for FC4?

The current version of vpnc will not restore resolv.conf.

What it seems to do is...modify resolv.conf, write the result to 
/etc/resolv.conf.pre-tun0 *after* modifying it. It looks like this:

#@VPNC_GENERATED@ -- this file is generated by vpnc
# and will be overwritten by vpnc
# as long as the above mark is intact
search Belkin
nameserver 172.16.52.28
nameserver 172.16.52.27

The search line is unchanged, but the nameservers have been altered.
The file in resolv.conf says:

search corp.redhat.com redhat.com
nameserver 172.16.52.28
nameserver 172.16.52.27

Then it restores the pre file on ifdown, leaving me without a working DNS server.

FC3 and FC4 have now been EOL'd.

Please check the ticket against a current Fedora release, and either adjust the
release number, or close it if appropriate.

Thanks.

Your friendly BZ janitor :-)

Still current.

Fedora apologizes that these issues have not been resolved yet. We're
sorry it's taken so long for your bug to be properly triaged and acted
on. We appreciate the time you took to report this issue and want to
make sure no important bugs slip through the cracks.

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Thanks for your help, and we apologize again that we haven't handled
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So do we still care about this? Isn't the vpnc support in NetworkManager good
enough?

NM's support is good enough.