Route and vpnc

[Mr. Knisely]

Kenneth P. Turvey wrote:

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>On Tue, 07 Mar 2006 04:23:02 -0600, Kenneth P. Turvey wrote:
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>>As it turns out this is really just a routing problem.  I am using the
>>following script to set everything up:
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>>#!/bin/bash
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>># Connects to UMSL's wireless network.
>># Assumes that the vpn client is set up with an umsl.config
>># in /etc/vpnc/umsl.conf
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>I just wanted to note that this little script doesn't really completely
>solve the problem I wanted it to.  I wanted to be able to sit down at my
>computer at any time and have access to the resources online at the
>University.  Unfortunately the VPN client doesn't support re-keying and is
>therefore disconnected every time the Universities server decides to do
>its re-keying.  Online this is stated to be every eight hours, but it
>looks like my University is doing this more often than that.  
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>The script is still useful, but I'll have to rerun it whenever I need to
>connect.  This is unfortunate.  
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>Kenneth P. Turvey <kt-usenet at squeakydolphin.com>
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Cisco Pix will time you out if you are not passing traffic.  Perhaps a 
keepalive ping will help.

Mike K.