[c-nsp] Linux VPN client suggestion?

[Charles Klement]

One important thing to remember is that  VPNC can ignore pretty much any
policy sent down from the concentrator.  This includes split tunnelling as
well as client versioning.

This is one of the reasons that I've been pushing the company I work for
towards anyconnect.


On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 9:56 AM, luismi <asturluismi at gmail.com> wrote:

> Ubuntu karmic 9.10 here, using graphic gnome vpn assistant (which uses
> vpnc in the background) and zero poblems against a vpn3030
>
> El mar, 03-11-2009 a las 11:01 -0800, Scott Granados escribió:
> > 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/<http://www.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/%7Emassar/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
> >
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