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nm-l2tp / NetworkManager-l2tp

L2TP and L2TP/IPsec support for NetworkManager
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L2TP not showing in centos #68

Closed bilak closed 6 years ago

bilak commented 6 years ago

Hello, I've recnetly installed NetworkManager-l2tp-1.2.8-1.el7 but unfortunatelly I can't see the configuration in settings VPN tab. I also tried to build sources manually but that didn't solved the issue. Centos release is CentOS Linux release 7.4.1708 (Core). If I can help you somehow trace the problem let me know.

dkosovic commented 6 years ago

Which desktop environment are you using? e.g. GNOME, GNOME Classic, MATE, Cinnamon, etc? I'm not able to reproduce with GNOME and CentoOS 7.4.1708. I think the default CentOS 7 desktop is GNOME Classic. If you are using a desktop environment other than KDE, I assume you also have NetworkManager-l2tp-gnome-1.2.8-1.el7 installed.

Are you able to do VPN configurations if you run /usr/bin/nm-connection-editor directly?

bilak commented 6 years ago

Hi, I'm using KDE. After installation of NetworkManager-l2tp-gnome when I run /usr/bin/nm-connection-editor I'm able to setup vpn, but is there way how to enable l2tp setup in default KDE NetworkManager?

dkosovic commented 6 years ago

This github repo doesn't provide the KDE GUI frontend for NetworkManager-l2tp. The KDE L2TP GUI is part of KDE's plasma-nm :

in particular the L2TP code is located here:

With EPEL7, I notice it includes the following KDE VPN RPMs which were built in 2014 using code from the same year :

they were build from kde-plasma-networkmanagement-0.9.0.9-7.el7.src.rpm and uses source code from the following GIT repo :

unlike the newer pasma-nm GIT repo, it has no L2TP frontend:

Sorry I'm not sure how you are supposed to get newer KDE RPMs for CentOS 7.

bilak commented 6 years ago

ok nevermind, I just switched to GNOME. Thank you.

dkosovic commented 6 years ago

I'll close this issue.

EPEL 7 would need to change to plasma-nm which Fedora changed to 4 years ago :

In theory you could build plasma-nm RPMs from the Fedora source RPMs.