Oh, forgot to mention -- if your vendor is on this list, try using 'vpnc': http://www.vpnc.org/member-list.html http://www.vpnc.org/ There should be howtos on this all over the web. On Thu, 2008-06-19 at 00:09 -0400, John Priddy wrote: > The short answer: > Talk to your IT staff first to see what kind of solution they are using > and if its possible to use a third party client, if so will they even > provide you the shared key, group name, etc. There are some reverse > engineering ways of determining some of these depending on > versions/vendors... > > > Long answer: > If your talking about some of the big name vendor VPN concentrator > products that your company may using for vpn access it may not be > possible. This completely different from the openvpn project mentioned > below. For these vendors (cisco, juniper, etc) the term 'SSL VPN or > WebVPN' is 'clientless'. You basically just go to an ssl web page > (https://webvpn.mycompany.com) , it asks for a username/password, and > then pushes down and installs some java applet from the concentrator, > opens this and connects with your credentials you provided, and then > sets up a tunnel such that all traffic bound for your workplace tunnels > through port 443. > > Chances of this working on a non windows system are slim to none for > various reasons, most notably the vendors dont write java applets to run > under anything other than windows. I am not even sure this would be > possible due to permissions needed at the network level on linux to do > so. > > > On Wed, 2008-06-18 at 18:42 -0400, Rick Bilonick wrote: > > On Wed, 2008-06-18 at 17:58 -0300, Itamar - IspBrasil wrote: > > > openvpn > > > > > > > > > Rick Bilonick wrote: > > > > Could some one point me in the right direction for installing and using > > > > ssl vpn? I've been using ssh to connect to my server but now it's going > > > > to be behind a firewall that uses ssl vpn for connections. > > > > > > > > Rick B. > > > > > > > > > > > > Thanks. I'm not familiar (yet) with exactly how vpn works. Will this > > work with access via a web page? (I'm always worried that IT here will > > make it virtually impossible to use Fedora or any Linux.) Plus I want to > > be able to connect from my Linux laptop and other Linux computers. > > > > Rick B. > > > -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
