Re: Is there a way / plugin to make Network manager use installed cisco vpnclient?

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Sun, 2006-11-12 at 17:29 +0530, Rogue wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I have finally managed to get my CISCO vpn client to install and work
> on my FC6 installation. I was wondering if there is a way to configure
> NetworkManager to use the vpnclient from Cisco.
> 
> Any suggestions on this direction are greatly appreciated.

No, not at this time with the current Cisco VPN client.  The VPN client
needs to be modified to receive passwords and other configuration
information from NetworkManager, and when it's connected to send IP
configuration information back to NetworkManager.  It currently doesn't
do that.  There is already the 'vpnc' plugin for NetworkManager, which
is compatible with Cisco VPN concentrators, but it has rekeying problems
around the 18 - 24 hour mark when the second set of keys need to be
rekeyed.  Other than that it works pretty well :)

Dan

> thanks,
> Rogue
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