SSL VPN

[John Burton]

John Priddy wrote:
> Oh, forgot to mention -- if your vendor is on this list, try using
> 'vpnc':
>
> http://www.vpnc.org/member-list.html
>
> http://www.vpnc.org/
>
>
> There should be howtos on this all over the web.
>   
Okay, I'm a bit late joining this thread so call me clueless if I ask 
the obvious, but...

My company (small) has a low end SonicWall firewall appliance with VPN 
capability. We have a bunch of mobile employees with laptops travelling 
regularly (including myself). Most have Windows or OSX machines and have 
VPN clients (commercial) that can connect no problem. I'm the oddball. I 
have a MacBook Pro with a small OSX partition and the rest Linux Fedora 
(currently F8, but I want to upgrade to F9 once I figure out all the 
details on my test machine). I can VPN in on the OSX side, and I can 
even run F8 under VMWare and make use of the the OSX VPN connection. But 
I don't want to use VMWare because F8 runs slower than when I boot into it.

So, to make a long story short, what I want is a way to make a VPN 
connection to a SonicWall firewall from Linux, either F8 or F9. Can it 
be done? If so, how??? I've tried this many times in the past and have 
yet to succeed (hence the small OSX partition). And yes, SonicWall is 
listed on www.vpnc.org/member-list.html.

TIA for any help you can give..


John