CISCO VPN Client for Fedora Core 2 Test 1

Ernest L. Williams Jr. ernesto at ornl.gov
Fri Mar 12 12:14:32 UTC 2004


On Fri, 2004-03-12 at 06:27, Patrick Caulfield wrote:
> 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.
> 
Cool

> 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.
> 
Okay, I have found an RPM  vpnc-0.2pre7-1.i386.rpm  for RedHat.  Is
there anything newer or possibly a "src.rpm"?   I will try this.



> see:
> http://packages.debian.org/testing/net/vpnc
> 
> 
> -- 
> 
> patrick
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