Re: FC4 Mouse weirdness with Cisco VPN [Solved]
From: Mike Noble (mgnoble_at_gmail.com)
Date: 07/17/05
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Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2005 11:21:08 -0700 To: Andrew Mather <mathera@gmail.com>, For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@redhat.com>
Andrew Mather wrote:
> Hi Rahul
>
> On 7/15/05, Andrew Mather <mathera@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>Hi Rahul
>>
>>On 7/15/05, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram@redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>>>Andrew Mather wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Hi All,
>>>>
>>>>I have a machine running FC4 with the latest updates (as of yesterday
>>>>morning), although this problem has been happening ever since the
>>>>machine was installed (clean install after full format incl /home).
>>>>I am using KDE as my window manager.
>>>>
>>>>The machine behaves quite normally and I can use the internet, local
>>>>applications, terminal windows etc, just as you might expect for as
>>>>long as I like with no problem.
>>>>
>>>>However whenever I bring up my VPN to work, which uses the Cicso VPN
>>>>client, it kills the mouse within a few seconds. The cursor moves
>>>>over to the left hand side of the screen and won't come out. Killing
>>>>the VPN does not restore function, I have to restart X
>>>>
>>>>The VPN concentrator enforces a policy which cuts off local LAN access
>>>>while the VPN is up. This is annoying, but done for the "right
>>>>reasons".
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>Is this Cisco client the proprietary one or vpnc from Fedora Extras?.
>>>Can you try vpnc to see if this works better?
>>
>>It's the Cisco one. I wondered if the fact that the concentrator is
>>enforcing policies like disabling local LAN access means it won't want
>>to talk to any other type of client.
>>
>>Our ITS guys are not very Linux friendly (well..antagonistic is
>>probably a better description), so I won't get any support from them.
>>
>>But it's definitely worth a shot. I'll give it a go over the weekend sometime.
>
>
> Well, I installed vpnc and as I suspected, my work's ITS have set up
> the concentrator in such a way that it will only talk to proprietary
> Cisco clients, so vpnc was no help.
>
> So I reinstalled FC4 (full format and clean install). 3 times. Glad
> I had the DVD...no feeding cd's ! ;-)
>
> Same behaviour each time. 100% reproducible. Tried both Gnome and
> KDE as default WM. No difference. Tried both proprietary and generic
> Nvidia drivers. No difference, so I'm pretty sure it wasn't
> something in the WM or video driver area.
>
> On further testing, the problem seemed to be related to moving and
> resizing windows, or loading graphically busy web pages, like the
> Ganglia cluster monitoring page for the cluster I was trying to VPN
> into. If I brought up the VPN and just left things sitting still,
> nothing changed until I moved the mouse. If I started doing things,
> once the VPN was up, I got 3 to 4 mouse-clicks worth before the mouse
> was rendered useless.
>
> I had used FC1, 2 and 3 on this hardware with no problems at all.
> Anyway, I spent ages fiddling with various files, trying just about
> everything and googling until my eyes bled.
>
> In the end, the fix was easy. Blow away FC4, install Kubuntu. No
> more problems.
> I get KDE and I can have both a mouse and a VPN ;-)
>
> I would have installed Gentoo like my main machine, but I've spent too
> much time trying to get this machine up and running already. It's
> really only going to act as a vpn client machine, so I couldn't
> justify the time to install Gentoo on what is essentially a few steps
> up from being a dumb terminal.
>
> I'm a long term (+10 years) Redhat/Fedora user, but sorry to say my
> faith in Fedora took a battering this time around. It's not lost
> completely, but it's a bit shaken. I still have one FC4 machine which
> seems to behave alright and I'm sure I'll line up with everyone else
> when FC5 comes out, but this taints my view a bit.
>
> Think I might sit FC4 out and see what happens next time around.
> Maybe the old adage of avoiding even numbered OS and service pack
> releases is true ?
>
> Not that that will make any difference, but venting makes me feel better ;-)
>
> Andrew
> PS BTW, Kubuntu is quite nice ;-)
>
I do not have a Cisco Concentrator, but I do have a Cisco PIX 515E which
I use the Cisco VPN client to connect to with FC4. I have had not had
the problems that you are describing at all. The Cisco VPN software
that I use is:
vpnclient-linux-4.6.00.0045-k9
and I install the patch
vpn-2.6.10-interceptor.patch
The patch basically lets it build for the newer kernels.
Mike
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