OT: vpn questions (stops using my internet connection and starts using the gateways?)
Scot L. Harris
webid at cfl.rr.com
Fri Jul 23 22:39:37 UTC 2004
On Fri, 2004-07-23 at 18:22, Kenneth Porter wrote:
> --On Friday, July 23, 2004 2:34 PM -0700 John Wendel
> <john.wendel at metnet.navy.mil> wrote:
>
> > As far as I know, the Cisco vpn client doesn't support split tunneling. I
> > think there is another open source client "vpnc" and "kvnpc" that has
> > been mentioned on this list that does support split tunneling, but I've
> > never used it.
>
> That would explain the problem. I'd heard about vpnc but haven't tried it:
>
> <http://www.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/~massar/vpnc/>
>
> The problem is that my peer uses a Windows directory to authenticate
> against and vpnc requires:
>
> (From the README)
> > If you don't know the Group ID and Secret string, ask your
> > administrator. If (s)he declines and refers to the
> > configuration files provided for the vpnclient program, tell
> > him/her that the contents of that files is (though scrambled)
> > not really protected and can be extracted using tools shipped
> > with any Linux distribution.
>
> But I now notice that there's a tool on the vpnc page to reverse out the
> group password from the Cisco profile for use in the vpnc config. So I may
> try that out.
I shudder to think that Cisco has such a potentially huge security
problem in their VPN clients.
--
Scot L. Harris
webid at cfl.rr.com
Stupidity got us into this mess -- why can't it get us out?
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