Re: [SLE] SuSE 9.1: Cisco VPN Client

From: adham hashibon (adham_at_tiscali.de)
Date: 06/05/04

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Date: Sat, 5 Jun 2004 15:48:35 +0200

    On Saturday 05 June 2004 15:41, Frederic Soulier wrote:
    > On Saturday 05 June 2004 14:33, adham hashibon wrote:
    > > On Saturday 05 June 2004 15:14, Frederic Soulier wrote:
    > > > On Saturday 05 June 2004 14:05, adham hashibon wrote:
    > > > > Thanks for the news!
    > > > >
    > > > > By the way, the open source vpnc client works too, and it is
    > > > > even nicer than the cisco one (although u must know the un
    > > > > encrypted group paswd.) I should add that if u want to use
    > > > > vpnc, make sure u get the latest version and compile it, then
    > > > > replace the binarries with the buggy ones supplied with suse
    > > > > 9.1.
    > > >
    > > > Why is it necessary to do that???
    > >
    > > Well, I am not sure, I tried the original one from Suse 9.1 a
    > > number of times, and it either hangs or gives some errors which I
    > > do not recall any more... I have tried so many options and got so
    > > many different messeges that I cannot remember what I got!! Any
    > > way, if u go to the link I gve before and follow the instructions
    > > vpnc should work, the one with suse 9.1 had a couple of bugs (in
    > > the original package, not suse related...)
    >
    > I already downloaded it yesterday before I got the Cisco client
    > working and I was getting the error below.
    > With the Cisco client I only use (group/group password), vpnc seems to
    > want a (user/user password) on top which I don't know.
    thats strange, u need a GroupName, GroupPwd, and a Username and a passwd to
    connect to the vpn cisco server, look at the profile
    file /etc/CiscoSystemsVPNClient/Profiles/ u should find all the info there,
    If the userpasswd is stored in ur profile, then vpnc will not ask for it...

    > So I'm stuck here.
    >
    > > > I've tried vpnc yesterday but it keeps asking me for a
    > > > username/password which I don't need with the Cisco client.
    > > > (I have my group name and group password in clear) and I end up
    > > > getting this:
    > > > ./vpnc: response was invalid [1]: INVALID_EXCHANGE_TYPE
    >
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