Nortel VPN Client

[Mark Mielke]

First:

I believe that Nortel develops a client VPN solution for WIN32, not
for Linux. The Linux client VPN solution that connects to the Nortel
Connectivity switch is made by a company called "netlock".

http://www.netlock.com/ may be useful to you.

For finding the problem:

I would first try using an older kernel, to isolate the problem as being
a distribution problem or a kernel problem. Once you get that to work,
you can experiment with other kernel rpms to see where it stops working.
This will also let you prove that the server itself is still talking to
you, and that it is Fedora Core 2 that is breaking it for you, as opposed
to the VPN server just not liking you anymore...

mark


On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 01:03:00PM -0400, James Drabb wrote:
> Hey group,
> 
> Has anyone gotten the Nortel VPN Client to work under Fedora Core 2?
> It works under Red Hat 8/9.  It is an app that has two binary only
> kernel modules and one binary only program named nleac.  It connect
> allows me to make a VPN connection to my work to a Nortel Contivity VPN.
> I compiled it from source and also tried to rebuild the SRPM with no
> luck.  It compiles fine since Nortel does what NVidia does and just has
> a small wrapper that gets compiled around the binary modules.  I
> exported CC=gcc32 but that didn't help.  The modules load fine with a
> message about tainting the kernel.  However, one they are loaded, no
> network activity works on any interface.  netstat -a just hangs.  As
> soon as I remove the two Nortel modules, eth0 begins to function again.
> 
> Any help would be appreciated,
> 
> Jim Drabb
> -- 
> James Drabb
> Senior Programmer Analyst
> Davenport, FL USA
> 
> 
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