NetworkManager VPN Doesn't Work: vpnc F14 x86_64

Christopher A. Williams chriswfedora at cawllc.com
Fri Nov 5 23:59:13 UTC 2010


On Fri, 2010-11-05 at 15:21 -0400, Kevin Johnson wrote:
> I have the same exact problem.  Posted in fedoraforums just a bit ago 
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> http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?p=1412811&posted=1#post1412811
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> When I connect using just vpnc CLI I get the errror:
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> vpnc: Error binding to source port. Try '--local-port 0'
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> Seems that pluto is listening on port 500?  I don't know that this has
> anything to do with it, but maybe,..

Thanks for the pointer! It was indeed openswan installed and running,
competing for port 500.

I don't need openswan, so I just removed it. My vpnc based VPN
connection profile works fine now.

Cheers,

Chris

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