On Wed, 2006-08-02 at 17:15 -0400, Jack Howarth wrote: > Has anyone else run into the following problem. After installing > the Cisco vpnclient on a Fedora Core 4 machine running the latest > kernel, I was able to use 'vpnclient connect' to connect to our > campus vpn network. However, I find that at that point the gnome > desktop is unable to open new terminal windows until I exit the > vpnclient (terminating the vpn session). At that point, all of the > gnome terminals that I tried to launch appear at once. I have the > machine set to use dhcp to obtain its ip address. Our network folks > don't see this problem on their Ubuntu linux boxes. It would appear > that the gnome desktop isn't properly using the localhost to > authenicate new windows but is relying instead of the hostname > obtained by dhcp. I assume this changes when vpn is active and > is causing the problem. Thanks in advance for any advice on > how to fix this. > Jack > What does your /etc/hosts file look like? You may also need to check /etc/nsswitch.conf. You should also be able to force the network interface name to be a static value in the network configuration files, assuming that is where the problem is.
