[lug] Cisco VPN

[Ed Moxley]

On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 13:54, Gordon Golding wrote:
> One of the sites which I need to connect to has declared that we need to use a Cisco VPN (I'm waiting for details).
> 
> They are pure MS, have no Linux expertise.  But they said "No problem, it's  a breeze putting the Cisco VPN on a Redhat 8 machine."
> 
> Anybody have any experience with running over VPNs?  Where should I start worrying?


Cisco has a Linux version of their VPN client software.  The Cisco 
software requires the building of a kernel module, due to the 
module not always being buildable after kernel upgrades I prefer 
this open source alternative.  (It doesn't require rebuilding after 
a kernel upgrade).

vpnc - client for cisco3000 VPN Concentrator
http://www.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/~massar/vpnc/