Re: VPN client configuration

[Tim Niemueller <tim niemueller de>]

Doug Farmer wrote:
> Tim,

Hi Doug.

> Thanks for the response. I have installed vpnc on my machine. As far as
> the plug-in is concerned...I have downloaded the source but how do I
> compile and install the package? Like I said, I am very new to
> Linux/Unix so I need all the help I can to get myself free of MS. I do
> really appreciate your help.
> 
> Which package do you recommend that I get rid of? I thought that I had
> all the up-to-date packages that were offered through 'yum'?! Again, any
> help is appreciated.


NetworkManager.i386                      0.4-15.cvs20050404
NetworkManager.i386                      0.5.1-1.FC4.4

So it seems that you have two version of NetworkManager installed. Get
rid of the first with
# rpm -e NetworkManager-0.4-15.cvs20050404

Then install vpnc from extras with
# yum install vpnc

Then download
ftp://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/extras/development/SRPMS/NetworkManager-vpnc-0.3-3.src.rpm
and rebuild with
# rpmbuild --rebuild NetworkManager-vpnc-0.3-3.src.rpm
yum install any devel packages that may be required.

This will create a package in /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386, install it with
# rpm -Uvh /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/NetworkManager-vpnc-0.3-3.i386.rpm

Then restart NM with
# /etc/init.d/NetworkManager restart
to reload the list of available plugins. I'm not sure maybe you need to
do a "killall nm-applet" to get the current list of VPNs.

Not you can configure and use VPN connections.

	Tim

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