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

[Christopher Aillon <caillon redhat com>]

Derek Atkins wrote:
> Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com> writes:
>
> > 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 :)
>
> Is it that long?  I seem to recall having issues as soon as 8-10
> hours.  Is there still even any development on vpnc?  Last I saw
> they hadn't had any commits or releases since 2005..  But I admit
> that yes, it works quite well most of the time.

See the following post from Tomas Mraz of Red Hat: 
http://lists.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/pipermail/vpnc-devel/2006-March/000864.html

Fedora carries several patches for this, and I've gone days without 
losing connection.