Fedora 10

[Sachin Murudkar]

Hi all

I am using fedora 10 I need a client vpn to connect to my off systems can
any one guide me.

[Kevin Kempter]

On Wednesday 07 January 2009 08:20:12 Sachin Murudkar wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I am using fedora 10 I need a client vpn to connect to my off systems can
> any one guide me.

I have yet to be able to get a VPN client working in Fedora 10 - for now I'm 
running CentOS inside of vmware workstation since the cisco vpn client for 
Linux compiles fine in CentOS

[Fred Smith]

On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 08:27:04AM -0700, Kevin Kempter wrote:
> On Wednesday 07 January 2009 08:20:12 Sachin Murudkar wrote:
> > Hi all
> >
> > I am using fedora 10 I need a client vpn to connect to my off systems can
> > any one guide me.
>
> I have yet to be able to get a VPN client working in Fedora 10 - for now I'm 
> running CentOS inside of vmware workstation since the cisco vpn client for 
> Linux compiles fine in CentOS

I'm using vpnc on fedora10. vpnc is an open source
cisco-(mostly)compatible vpn client. A couple of nice things about it:
(1) it runs in user space, not as a kernel module, and (2) it does not
completely disconnect you from your local network as the real cisco vpn
client does.

There's also some degree of Nortel and NetScreen compatibility in there,
though I've never tried using it with one of those.

F10, in fact, includes vpnc, so all you gotta do is use it.

If you're using network manager, just left-click the NM applet's icon
in the upper panel, click "VPN Connections" then set up the parameters
for the vpn to which you wish to connect.

If you're looking for some other (non-cisco) vpn, I'm afraid I can't
help you. sorry.

[Wayne Feick]

On Wed, 2009-01-07 at 12:10 -0500, fred smith wrote:
> F10, in fact, includes vpnc, so all you gotta do is use it.
>
> If you're using network manager, just left-click the NM applet's icon
> in the upper panel, click "VPN Connections" then set up the parameters
> for the vpn to which you wish to connect.

You'll need both vpnc and NetworkManager-vpnc installed.

Wayne.

[Kevin Fenzi]

On Wed, 7 Jan 2009 20:50:12 +0530
"Sachin Murudkar"  wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I am using fedora 10 I need a client vpn to connect to my off systems
> can any one guide me.

What VPN server do those "off systems" run? Are they Linux boxes?
Cicsco? Something else?

If they are all Linux machines, I would very much recommend openvpn. 
'yum install openvpn' and read the quickstart howto on openvpn.net.

If it's cicsco you can use the 'vpnc' package.

If it's a generic ipsec server you can use 'openswan'.

kevin

[Sachin Murudkar]

Thanks Kevin

I am installing openvpn on a linux system (Fedora 10) I tried installing
openvpn with lzo and openssl but how do I go a head I tried few commands
mentioned below as given in the document after installing openvpn and they
worked.

/usr/local/sbin/openvpn --genkey --secret key
/usr/local/sbin/openvpn --test-crypto --secret key
/usr/local/sbin/openvpn --config sample-config-files/loopback-client

How do I goahead now ??? pls let me know if I am doing somthing wrong, your
help is required.

Regards

Sachin

On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 10:36 PM, Kevin Fenzi  wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Jan 2009 20:50:12 +0530
> "Sachin Murudkar"  wrote:
> > Hi all
> >
> > I am using fedora 10 I need a client vpn to connect to my off systems
> > can any one guide me.
>
> What VPN server do those "off systems" run? Are they Linux boxes?
> Cicsco? Something else?
>
> If they are all Linux machines, I would very much recommend openvpn.
> 'yum install openvpn' and read the quickstart howto on openvpn.net.
>
> If it's cicsco you can use the 'vpnc' package.
>
> If it's a generic ipsec server you can use 'openswan'.
>
> kevin
>
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[Arthur Pemberton]

On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 2:08 AM, Sachin Murudkar  wrote:
> Thanks Kevin
>
> I am installing openvpn on a linux system (Fedora 10) I tried installing
> openvpn with lzo and openssl but how do I go a head I tried few commands
> mentioned below as given in the document after installing openvpn and they
> worked.
>
> /usr/local/sbin/openvpn --genkey --secret key
> /usr/local/sbin/openvpn --test-crypto --secret key
> /usr/local/sbin/openvpn --config sample-config-files/loopback-client
>
> How do I goahead now ??? pls let me know if I am doing somthing wrong, your
> help is required.

I found this HOWTO [1] to be very clear, have you tried it?

[1] http://openvpn.net/index.php/documentation/howto.html