Need help with being a vpn client. OpenSWaN maybe?

[Christofer C. Bell]

On 12/24/05, Steven W. Orr <steveo at syslang.net> wrote:
>> On Saturday, Dec 24th 2005 at 16:29 -0600, quoth Christofer C. Bell:
>>
>> Assuming the "Nortel appliance" is a Nortel Contivity server, you
>> can't use Openswan for what you're intending.  It's not supported.
>>
>> http://wiki.openswan.org/index.php/Nortel%20Contivity
>
> Very sad. Ok. Is there anything on linux that will talk to that appliance?
>
> I do need to get in there and I really don't want to do it from Windoze.
> :-(

Unfortunately, I'm in the same boat.  My employer also uses Contivity
for VPN.  There is a Linux client available from Nortel, but nothing
that's freely available that I'm aware of.  Perhaps your work can look
into licensing you a copy of the Nortel software.--

--
Chris

"I trust the Democrats to take away my money, which I can afford.  I
trust the Republicans to take away my freedom, which I cannot."