On Fri July 23 2004 12:06 pm, joel schaubert wrote: > We're trying to get the cisco VPN 4.0.4.B client to work with Fedora. > After whiping the box clean and reinstalling a few times, I've verified > that after a workstation install the VPN client works fine. > > Then after time it breaks. > One method that seems to break it for sure is to upgrade the kernal from > the install version of 2.6.5-1.358 to 2.6.6-1.435.2.1 > After this upgrade, the VPN will connect, and I can ping addresses, but DNS > no longer works. > It seems there are other things that can break the DNS while on VPN but I > haven't been able to pin those down yet. > > 1) have others seen problems with DNS over cisco VPN with FC2? > 2) Is this kind of posting suitable for this mailing list? > (Been programming linux at work for a long time, but recently got so > worried from security issues with my home OS that I've just started using > fedora for the first time at home -- nice install by the way ! ) > > Joel Schaubert > > additional details > A) after upgrading the kernal the vpn software has to be recompiled and > reinstalled, this was expected > B) the NIC card is PCMCIA so linux startup fails to start eth0 because > PCMCIA hasn't been started yet, then delays init and suceeds later on. > This I think is normal, and does NOT cause any problems for non vpn access. I have found that I cannot run vncviewer over a VPN session in FC2, didn't have anyh problems with FC1, even with 4.04B client.
