infact i got a sattelite based internet service (only download, upload from dialup) from www.planetsky.com. they require me to connect to their server through vpn. in windows xp i simply create a vpn connection and it connects to their server nicely. now i want to switch to linux. but i dont know how to connect with vpn (i know how to connect to dialup in linux)From: Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx> Reply-To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: vpn Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 12:42:33 -0400
On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 12:24:36PM -0400, Crisler, Jon wrote: > 2) Is the VPN solution in the form of a hardware or firewall device, > perhaps from Cisco, Nortel, TIS etc.? In that case, you normally would > run a matching vendors software component, such as Cisco's VPN package > for Linux to a Cisco VPN Concentrator. I don't have a lot of experience > in interoperability in this area: I take it on faith that there is > little to none. IOW - if you have a Cisco hw product, you are required > to use a Cisco VPN sw package. > For those with more VPN experience than I, I would love to hear some > comments on interoperability.
You can use vpnc to connect to Cisco VPN concentrators. Much nicer than the binary kernel module from Cisco, in fact.
<http://www.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/~massar/vpnc/>
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