On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 02:18:39PM -0500, Scot L. Harris wrote: > On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 12:39 -0600, Jeff Vian wrote: > > > I have a laptop that is on Windows for the sole reason of running the > > cisco vpn client, and to access a web site that only accepts the IE > > browser to enter time for one admin position I hold. > > > > If anyone knows how I can get past these two blocks I will be M$ free > > again (as I had been for 2 years, until the last 3 months). > > There is a cisco vpn client for linux. Run that for work all the time. > > Check their web site for the software or ask you IT group for it. It uses a binary only kernel module that frequently causes problems judging by the number of reports I've seen in bugzilla tainted by it, which magically 'go away' when the user switches to using vpnc. One of the horrors of binary kernel modules is they don't keep up with the steady release of upstream kernels, so what might work fine on one release might break horribly in next weeks updates, sometimes in particularly drastic ways like memory corruption when then finds its way written out to disk. If you value your data, really, avoid using binary kernel modules. Dave
