CISCO VPN Client for Fedora Core 2 Test 1

[Patrick Caulfield]

On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 12:34:36PM +0200, Kaj J.Niemi wrote:
> > Can anyone tell me how to get the CISCO VPN client running under Fedora
> > Core 2 Test1? I currently have Linux Kernel "2.6.4-1.257"
> > I believe this has compiled and worked against Red Hat 9.0.
> 
> I think it broke somewhere after 2.6.1. Since part of the software is
> distributed as binary only it would be best if you took up the issue
> with either you Cisco AM/SE and let them know how much you appreciate
> them supporting Linux and how you'd like them to release a newer version
> which works with later kernels. :)
> 
> > Is there a free VPN client that comes with Linux and works with CISCO
> > VPN routers?
> 
> I'm not aware of anything which would connect to VPN 3000 series
> concentrators through NAT and support XAUTH. FreeSWAN/OpenSWAN worked
> against IOS IPSec but with static keys and IPs and stuff I think.

vpnc works on 2.6 kernels (it's all userspace) and connects to Cisco VPNs.

I've been told it's a bit hard to get it compiled for some platforms (I'm
running mine on a Debian box) but it should just be a question of using the
right libgcrypt I think.

see:
http://packages.debian.org/testing/net/vpnc


-- 

patrick