Nortel Netlock VPN client

[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 at 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 at shentel.net