connecting with a corporate server thru VPN

[Frank McCormick]

On Mon, 12 Dec 2005 12:00:56 +1300
Tim Frost <timfrost at xtra.co.nz> wrote:

> On Sun, 2005-12-11 at 17:07 -0500, Frank McCormick wrote:
> > 
> 
> >    Yes that's it - Cisco. I know they have (or had?) a Linux client but
> > gave it a shot a few month ago when I ran Hoary and couldn't get it
> > going. The network at work is really Windows centric. (and huge).
> 
> The cisco client for linux is hard to get working in that you must
> compile a kernel module for your running kernel.
> 
> If the Cisco endpoint is a VPN concentrator, you may be able to use
> vpnc, which is in universe:
>    vpnc - Cisco-compatible VPN client
> 
> You need to supply a configuration file (see /etc/vpnc/example.conf),
> and the following minimum data:
> * IPSec gateway 
> * IPSec ID 
> * IPSec secret 
> * Xauth username 
> 
> IPSec gateway is the IP address of the VPN concentrator
> IPSec ID is the group name
> IPSec secret is the (unencrypted!!) group password
> Xauth username is your userid for the VPN
> 
> 
> 
> There have been a number of discussions about this on the list, so you
> may find more by searching the list archives from the last 3 months.
   

  OK got it installed - I'll have to have a look at the archives as the
manual is pretty thin on info.

Thanks to everyone - we'll see what happens.

Cheers