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

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From: "David Willington" <violawillington at googlemail.com>
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  Date: Today 13:19:02
   

On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 1:31 PM, Chris Warburton
<chriswarbo at googlemail.com>wrote:

> On Thursday 18 September 2008 10:20:46 Diana Maynard wrote:
> > Can anyone help? I've recently got an Acer Aspire One which I'm 
loving,
> > apart from one thing.
> > I cannot for the life of me figure out how to get a VPN working.
> > I'm used to Ubuntu but am struggling a little with Linpus which I 
think
> > is basically Red Hat.
> > I've got various vpn client things installed according to the 
package
> > manager thing, but I don't get any sign of anything resembling a 
vpn on
> > the Connection Manager, so I'm at a loss how to proceed. The Acer 
Aspire
> > One forum hasn't provided anything useful, nor has googling for 
it.
> > Thanks
> > Diana
> > PS I'll probably install Ubuntu on it instead eventually, but 
don't have
> > time right now and would really like to get the thing working.
>

I use a vpn to connect to a couple of schools in Sheffield. The vpn 
provider uses (I think) a cisco setup, but as far as I'm aware it 
shouldn't matter what they use. I use vpnc-connect on Mint (based on 
Ubuntu). There are some settings in /etc/vpnc/default.conf which I've 
put in, information provided by the vpn provider. The lines 
in /etc/vpnc/default.conf are

IPSec gateway vpn.yhgfl.net
IPSec ID XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXxx
IPSec secret XXXXXXXXXXXXXXx
Xauth username XXXXXXXXXXXxx
DNSUpdate no

Then on the command line sudo vpnc-connect and supply a vpn password 
(which changes each time - I've got a dongle which gives me a fresh 
number each time). It's all command line stuff, but works seemlessly 
and reliably. To disconnect it's sudo vpnc-disconnect  The last line 
in the config file is to stop your /etc/resolv.conf file being 
overwritten. Without it, I couldn't use the internet (or anything 
needing adns server) if I was connected to the vpn.

Hope this helps

David

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