Re: [Sheflug] Netbooks: who's got on, and how has it been?

[Richard Ibbotson <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Marc seems to be sending from an address that is not subscribed to the 
list.  So, Mailman ate his mail.   Here it is after I accidentally 
discovered it ........


From: 
Marc Kelly <marc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>  (Just Me..)
  To: sheflug@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
  Date: Today 12:56:50

Hi,

> I tried to get a VPN going on my laptop so I could use the "Unishef" 
wifi 
> network on campus. It seems that every VPN supplier does things in a 
slightly 
> different way, and the University uses Cisco's stuff.

I am guessing its probably the same sort kit that we use here at 
Manchester Uni use, they specify the Cisco horrid client for linux, 
but I got it working with the vpnc client.

The only thing needed was to "decompile" the secret password in the 
cisco clients config file into one for the vpnc client. 
http://www.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/~massar/bin/cisco-decode decoded our one 
for me.

My config file for this is

IKE DH Group dh2
IPSec gateway <your uni gateway>
IPSec ID linux
IPSec secret <secret decoded from above website>
Xauth username <your username>
Application version Cisco Systems VPN Client 3.7.3 (A):Linux

I am not sure if the application bit is important, but i added it 
after seeing some website.

> I hope that helps, since I must say it didn't work for me at all :P

I only used it once, about a year ago. So could well not work with 
newer cisco stuff...

-- 
/\/\arc Kelly
..Just your average physicist trying to get by in a world full of 
normal people...

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