[K12OSN] CISCO vpn client for linux

"Terrell Prudé, Jr." microman at cmosnetworks.com
Thu Oct 7 22:11:46 UTC 2004


Ted thanks you, as does Terrell.  :-) 

Good to hear that it's working.  FWIW, this is exactly how I've gotten a 
couple more converts to GNU/Linux, so I'm glad to see Cisco supporting 
our favorite platform.

--TP...er, Ted

Lewis Holcroft wrote:

> Ted! Who's Ted?
>
> Sorry TP. It was pre coffee.
>
> And once again I'm very exited about getting this to work.
>
> Lewis
>
> On Oct 7, 2004, at 8:22 AM, Lewis Holcroft wrote:
>
>> Ted,
>>
>> Thank you very much. This worked like a charm.
>>
>> Lewis
>>
>> On Oct 6, 2004, at 9:14 PM, Terrell Prudé, Jr. wrote:
>>
>>> Lewis Holcroft wrote:
>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>> I'm glad to know this is in use and works.
>>>>
>>>> I should say I am new to this process and site I am connecting too 
>>>> are all windows folks. So the learning curve is steep.
>>>>
>>>> I did run into a problem. I am running the vpnclient on the server 
>>>> and when it does connect the LAN gets disabled. This is a problem 
>>>> as all of the local desktops stop responding. Are folks using the 
>>>> vpnclient on the server or on workstations on the network? Is this 
>>>> a configurable option?
>>>>
>>>> I'm working with no documentation here. So I'm really in the dark.
>>>>
>>>> Lewis
>>>>
>>>> On Oct 5, 2004, at 7:42 PM, Terrell Prudé, Jr. wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Lewis Holcroft wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I have rolled out a K12LTSP 4.0 cluster of 5 servers (I could 
>>>>>> upgrade but I just got this installation working and am going to 
>>>>>> wait a while)  and now that we have all the equipment in we are 
>>>>>> told that the client needs to use a $MS product. The vendor does 
>>>>>> not offer a Linux version so....
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The first step is to set up a vpn link. The vendor uses CISCO 
>>>>>> 3000 series product and has sent along a copy of the cisco vpn 
>>>>>> client version 4.6.00.0045-k9.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This requires the kernel source to install. That was fun to install.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> When I start the daemon I get messages about tainting the kernel, 
>>>>>> which concerns me. Should I be concerned? I think so.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Is anyone running this vpn client?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> If so, does it work well or have problems?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Lewis
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I have been using the Cisco VPN Client since v4.0.3B, up to and 
>>>>> including the 4.6 version specified above, since 4.0.3B came out.  
>>>>> Works fine, though for 2.6 kernels, experience has taught me that 
>>>>> you will need the 4.6 version for reliable operation.
>>>>>
>>>>> I have successfully done this on Red Hat Linux 9, Slackware 
>>>>> GNU/Linux 9.1 and 10.0, and SuSE Linux 9.1.  "Tainted" simply 
>>>>> means that a proprietary, i. e. non-GPL kernel module is getting 
>>>>> inserted into the kernel.  Doesn't affect operation, but I wish 
>>>>> Cisco would be less anally retentive about the GPL.
>>>>>
>>>>> --TP
>>>>> _____________________
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>>>>>
>>>
>>> In my .pcf file, there's a setting "EnableLocalLan".  Try setting 
>>> that to 1 and let us know.
>>>
>>> --TP
>>> __________________
>>




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