[c-nsp] Linux VPN client suggestion?

[Scott Granados]

Hi all, looks like VPNC wins with Cisco anyconnect ssl VPN coming in second. 
(I actually think we have a license for this feature set already)

Thanks as always for the great suggestions.



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Eloy Paris" <elparis at cisco.com>
To: "Scott Granados" <gsgranados at comcast.net>
Cc: <cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net>
Sent: Tuesday, November 03, 2009 10:53 AM
Subject: Re: [c-nsp] Linux VPN client suggestion?


> Hi Scott,
>
> On Tue, Nov 03, 2009 at 10:34:04AM -0800, Scott Granados wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>> I'm running presently Cisco ASA 5520 hardware with the Cisco VPN client
>> to provide remote users access to network resources.  I have one user who
>> is interested in a client for Linux (specifically CentOS) and not sure
>> what to suggest.  Does anyone have any good pointers for a good client
>> that I can point him to?
>>
>> Any pointers would be appreciated.
>
> The Cisco VPN Client does support *some* versions of Linux. However, it
> does not work with the latest versions of the Linux kernel so if you
> user's kernel is recent (and unfortunately, "recent" doesn't really have
> to be very recent) then the official Cisco VPN Client is not an option.
>
> However, there is an open source VPN client that works with Cisco VPN
> headends. I personally use and it works great:
>
> http://www.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/~massar/vpnc/
>
> It's included in pretty much all Linux distributions. A quick Google
> search for "centos vpnc" turned this up as the first hit:
>
> http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/vpnc
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Cheers,
>
> -- 
>
> Eloy Paris
> Cisco PSIRT
> Ph: +1 919 392-9118