Nortel Netlock VPN client

[Ben Steeves]

Hi,

Has anyone had any luck getting Nortel's Netlock VPN client working in
Fedora Core 1?  The supplied RH8 SRPM builds & installs fine, but once
it's installed (not even running), my network is dead, and the start_cvc
command can't connect to http://127.0.0.1:9161 like it's supposed to.

Jim Drabb sent an e-mail to the list back in November asking this very
question and didn't get a response -- I tried e-mailing him directly but
the mail bounced... Jim, if you're out there, did you ever get this
working?

Ben
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[Gunnar Kramm]

Original e-mail from: Ben Steeves (bcs(a)metacon.ca):

>  Hi,
>  
>  Has anyone had any luck getting Nortel's Netlock VPN client working in
>  Fedora Core 1?  The supplied RH8 SRPM builds & installs fine, but once
>  it's installed (not even running), my network is dead, and the start_cvc
>  command can't connect to http://127.0.0.1:9161 like it's supposed to.
>  
>  Jim Drabb sent an e-mail to the list back in November asking this very
>  question and didn't get a response -- I tried e-mailing him directly but
>  the mail bounced... Jim, if you're out there, did you ever get this
>  working?
>  
>  Ben
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Ben,

I have also been trying to get the Netlock client working with Fedora.  I
have not gotten it to work. I finally contacted Tech Support about this and
they confirmed that the do not have a client for Fedora yet.  I think they
said that might have one ready in May.

By the way Nortel sold the Netlock Client to Apani Networks (www.apani.com).
It was their tech. support I talked to.


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[Neal D. Becker]

Gunnar vS Kramm wrote:

>  Original e-mail from: Ben Steeves (bcs(a)metacon.ca):
>  
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Has anyone had any luck getting Nortel's Netlock VPN client working in
> > Fedora Core 1?  The supplied RH8 SRPM builds & installs fine, but once
> > it's installed (not even running), my network is dead, and the start_cvc
> > command can't connect to http://127.0.0.1:9161 like it's supposed to.
> > 
> > Jim Drabb sent an e-mail to the list back in November asking this very
> > question and didn't get a response -- I tried e-mailing him directly but
> > the mail bounced... Jim, if you're out there, did you ever get this
> > working?
> > 
> > Ben
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>  
>  Ben,
>  
>  I have also been trying to get the Netlock client working with Fedora.  I
>  have not gotten it to work. I finally contacted Tech Support about this
>  and
>  they confirmed that the do not have a client for Fedora yet.  I think they
>  said that might have one ready in May.
>  
>  By the way Nortel sold the Netlock Client to Apani Networks
>  (www.apani.com). It was their tech. support I talked to.
>  
>   
Don't know if this will help, but maybe openvpn could help you.  It's great,
and MUCH simpler than ipsec-based VPN.

[Shannon McMackin]

Neal D. Becker wrote:
>  Gunnar vS Kramm wrote:
>  
>  
> >Original e-mail from: Ben Steeves (bcs(a)metacon.ca):
> >
> >
> >>Hi,
> >>
> >>Has anyone had any luck getting Nortel's Netlock VPN client working in
> >>Fedora Core 1?  The supplied RH8 SRPM builds & installs fine, but once
> >>it's installed (not even running), my network is dead, and the start_cvc
> >>command can't connect to http://127.0.0.1:9161 like it's supposed to.
> >>
> >>Jim Drabb sent an e-mail to the list back in November asking this very
> >>question and didn't get a response -- I tried e-mailing him directly but
> >>the mail bounced... Jim, if you're out there, did you ever get this
> >>working?
> >>
> >>Ben
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> >
> >Ben,
> >
> >I have also been trying to get the Netlock client working with Fedora.  I
> >have not gotten it to work. I finally contacted Tech Support about this
> >and
> >they confirmed that the do not have a client for Fedora yet.  I think they
> >said that might have one ready in May.
> >
> >By the way Nortel sold the Netlock Client to Apani Networks
> >(www.apani.com). It was their tech. support I talked to.
> >
> >
>  
>  
>  Don't know if this will help, but maybe openvpn could help you.  It's great,
>  and MUCH simpler than ipsec-based VPN.
>  
>  
>   
Netlock is not ipsec-based.  It actually functions over an ssh tunnel. 
There should be a beta available soon for FC1.  Unfortunately, they may 
focus on RHEL3 before they work on FC1, but I think the issues are the same.

Shannon McMackin
mcmackin(a)shentel.net

[James Drabb]

On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 08:22, Neal D. Becker wrote:
>  Gunnar vS Kramm wrote:
>  
>  > Original e-mail from: Ben Steeves (bcs(a)metacon.ca):
>  > 
>  >> Hi,
>  >> 
>  >> Has anyone had any luck getting Nortel's Netlock VPN client working in
>  >> Fedora Core 1?  The supplied RH8 SRPM builds & installs fine, but once
>  >> it's installed (not even running), my network is dead, and the start_cvc
>  >> command can't connect to http://127.0.0.1:9161 like it's supposed to.
>  >> 
>  >> Jim Drabb sent an e-mail to the list back in November asking this very
>  >> question and didn't get a response -- I tried e-mailing him directly but
>  >> the mail bounced... Jim, if you're out there, did you ever get this
>  >> working? 
Sorry for replying to this post instead of the original, however I
deleted it.

I am able to run the Netlock client under FC1.  However I have NOT been
able to get it to run on the FC kernels.  I downloaded the latest RH9
kernel and kernel source and installed that.  It works perfect under
RH9's kernel.  I guess it is something in the FC kernel that Netlock
doesn't like.  I have the RH9 kernel and FC1 kernel install and just
reboot into the RH9 kernel if I need to VPN into work.  It is not the
best solution.  However you could use the RH9 kernel full-time over the
FC1 kernel.

It would be nice if a newer Netlock version came out that supported FC1,
though I won't hold my breath : )

Jim Drabb
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[Shannon McMackin]

James Drabb wrote:
>  On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 08:22, Neal D. Becker wrote:
>  
> >Gunnar vS Kramm wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Original e-mail from: Ben Steeves (bcs(a)metacon.ca):
> >>
> >>
> >>>Hi,
> >>>
> >>>Has anyone had any luck getting Nortel's Netlock VPN client working in
> >>>Fedora Core 1?  The supplied RH8 SRPM builds & installs fine, but once
> >>>it's installed (not even running), my network is dead, and the start_cvc
> >>>command can't connect to http://127.0.0.1:9161 like it's supposed to.
> >>>
> >>>Jim Drabb sent an e-mail to the list back in November asking this very
> >>>question and didn't get a response -- I tried e-mailing him directly but
> >>>the mail bounced... Jim, if you're out there, did you ever get this
> >>>working?
>  
>  
>  Sorry for replying to this post instead of the original, however I
>  deleted it.
>  
>  I am able to run the Netlock client under FC1.  However I have NOT been
>  able to get it to run on the FC kernels.  I downloaded the latest RH9
>  kernel and kernel source and installed that.  It works perfect under
>  RH9's kernel.  I guess it is something in the FC kernel that Netlock
>  doesn't like.  I have the RH9 kernel and FC1 kernel install and just
>  reboot into the RH9 kernel if I need to VPN into work.  It is not the
>  best solution.  However you could use the RH9 kernel full-time over the
>  FC1 kernel.
>  
>  It would be nice if a newer Netlock version came out that supported FC1,
>  though I won't hold my breath : )
>  
>  Jim Drabb 
There's another post above in the list that indicates you can use a 
2.4.21 custome kernel from kernel.org with FC1 and it works great.  The 
changes that broke were introduced into 2.4.22 and backported to FC1, 
RHEL3 and SuSE 9 implementations of their 2.4.21 kernels.  Something 
added to skbuff.h threw everything off.

Shannon McMackin
mcmackin(a)shentel.net