On Saturday, Dec 24th 2005 at 16:29 -0600, quoth Christofer C. Bell: =>On 12/24/05, Steven W. Orr <steveo@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: =>> My new employer let's me get into work using vpn with IPSEC. I assume that =>> this means that I can use openswan. (Correct me if I'm wrong.) =>> =>> What they gave me is an external ip address, a username and a password. It =>> goes into a Nortel appliance of some sort. => =>Assuming the "Nortel appliance" is a Nortel Contivity server, you =>can't use Openswan for what you're intending. It's not supported. => =>http://wiki.openswan.org/index.php/Nortel%20Contivity Very sad. Ok. Is there anything on linux that will talk to that appliance? I do need to get in there and I really don't want to do it from Windoze. :-( -- Time flies like the wind. Fruit flies like a banana. Stranger things have .0. happened but none stranger than this. Does your driver's license say Organ ..0 Donor?Black holes are where God divided by zero. Listen to me! We are all- 000 individuals! What if this weren't a hypothetical question? steveo at syslang.net