Andrew Mather wrote: > Hi Rahul > > On 7/15/05, Andrew Mather <mathera@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >>Hi Rahul >> >>On 7/15/05, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >>>Andrew Mather wrote: >>> >>> >>>>Hi All, >>>> >>>>I have a machine running FC4 with the latest updates (as of yesterday >>>>morning), although this problem has been happening ever since the >>>>machine was installed (clean install after full format incl /home). >>>>I am using KDE as my window manager. >>>> >>>>The machine behaves quite normally and I can use the internet, local >>>>applications, terminal windows etc, just as you might expect for as >>>>long as I like with no problem. >>>> >>>>However whenever I bring up my VPN to work, which uses the Cicso VPN >>>>client, it kills the mouse within a few seconds. The cursor moves >>>>over to the left hand side of the screen and won't come out. Killing >>>>the VPN does not restore function, I have to restart X >>>> >>>>The VPN concentrator enforces a policy which cuts off local LAN access >>>>while the VPN is up. This is annoying, but done for the "right >>>>reasons". >>>> >>>> >>> >>>Is this Cisco client the proprietary one or vpnc from Fedora Extras?. >>>Can you try vpnc to see if this works better? >> >>It's the Cisco one. I wondered if the fact that the concentrator is >>enforcing policies like disabling local LAN access means it won't want >>to talk to any other type of client. >> >>Our ITS guys are not very Linux friendly (well..antagonistic is >>probably a better description), so I won't get any support from them. >> >>But it's definitely worth a shot. I'll give it a go over the weekend sometime. > > > Well, I installed vpnc and as I suspected, my work's ITS have set up > the concentrator in such a way that it will only talk to proprietary > Cisco clients, so vpnc was no help. > > So I reinstalled FC4 (full format and clean install). 3 times. Glad > I had the DVD...no feeding cd's ! ;-) > > Same behaviour each time. 100% reproducible. Tried both Gnome and > KDE as default WM. No difference. Tried both proprietary and generic > Nvidia drivers. No difference, so I'm pretty sure it wasn't > something in the WM or video driver area. > > On further testing, the problem seemed to be related to moving and > resizing windows, or loading graphically busy web pages, like the > Ganglia cluster monitoring page for the cluster I was trying to VPN > into. If I brought up the VPN and just left things sitting still, > nothing changed until I moved the mouse. If I started doing things, > once the VPN was up, I got 3 to 4 mouse-clicks worth before the mouse > was rendered useless. > > I had used FC1, 2 and 3 on this hardware with no problems at all. > Anyway, I spent ages fiddling with various files, trying just about > everything and googling until my eyes bled. > > In the end, the fix was easy. Blow away FC4, install Kubuntu. No > more problems. > I get KDE and I can have both a mouse and a VPN ;-) > > I would have installed Gentoo like my main machine, but I've spent too > much time trying to get this machine up and running already. It's > really only going to act as a vpn client machine, so I couldn't > justify the time to install Gentoo on what is essentially a few steps > up from being a dumb terminal. > > I'm a long term (+10 years) Redhat/Fedora user, but sorry to say my > faith in Fedora took a battering this time around. It's not lost > completely, but it's a bit shaken. I still have one FC4 machine which > seems to behave alright and I'm sure I'll line up with everyone else > when FC5 comes out, but this taints my view a bit. > > Think I might sit FC4 out and see what happens next time around. > Maybe the old adage of avoiding even numbered OS and service pack > releases is true ? > > Not that that will make any difference, but venting makes me feel better ;-) > > Andrew > PS BTW, Kubuntu is quite nice ;-) > I do not have a Cisco Concentrator, but I do have a Cisco PIX 515E which I use the Cisco VPN client to connect to with FC4. I have had not had the problems that you are describing at all. The Cisco VPN software that I use is: vpnclient-linux-4.6.00.0045-k9 and I install the patch vpn-2.6.10-interceptor.patch The patch basically lets it build for the newer kernels. Mike -- Mike Noble mgnoble@xxxxxxxxx Key ID: 0xFFDFC13B Keyserver: http://pgpkeys.mit.edu
