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

[Diana Maynard <d.maynard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>
> 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.
>
>
>   

Thanks - any ideas what I actually run to set up the config?
I tried "vpnc" from the command line and it did give me a bunch of stuff
a bit like that, but it didn't seem to work at the end of it, as it
complained about missing files and things.

Diana


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