connecting with a corporate server thru VPN

[Tim Frost]

On Sun, 2005-12-11 at 17:07 -0500, Frank McCormick wrote:
> 

>    Yes that's it - Cisco. I know they have (or had?) a Linux client but
> gave it a shot a few month ago when I ran Hoary and couldn't get it
> going. The network at work is really Windows centric. (and huge).

The cisco client for linux is hard to get working in that you must
compile a kernel module for your running kernel.

If the Cisco endpoint is a VPN concentrator, you may be able to use
vpnc, which is in universe:
   vpnc - Cisco-compatible VPN client

You need to supply a configuration file (see /etc/vpnc/example.conf),
and the following minimum data:
* IPSec gateway 
* IPSec ID 
* IPSec secret 
* Xauth username 

IPSec gateway is the IP address of the VPN concentrator
IPSec ID is the group name
IPSec secret is the (unencrypted!!) group password
Xauth username is your userid for the VPN



There have been a number of discussions about this on the list, so you
may find more by searching the list archives from the last 3 months.


Tim