Re: NM & NetScreen VPN

[Greg Oliver <greg oliver cistera com>]

On Mon, 2007-12-24 at 17:23 +0100, Cyril Jaquier wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> > At work, we have a Juniper firewall (NetScreen). Version 0.4.0 of vpnc
> > is able to connect to such firewalls and has a specific option for this:
> > 
> > Vendor netscreen
> > 
> > Using vpnc directly works perfectly. I tried with networkmanager-vpnc.
> > However, it is not possible to select this option in the wizard. So I
> > set the option with gconf-editor. But then, NM exits with this message:
> > 
> > Aug 26 17:56:26 [NetworkManager] <WARN>
> > nm_vpn_service_stop_connection(): (VPN Service
> > org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.vpnc): could not stop connection 'XXXX'
> > because service was 6._
> > Aug 26 17:56:26 [NetworkManager] file nm-vpn-service.c: line 475
> > (nm_vpn_service_stage3_connect_cb): assertion failed: (service != NULL)
> > 
> > Any chance to get support for NetScreen firewall? Is it possible to set
> > vpnc option manually?
> > 
> 
> Sorry but as I never received any answers to this e-mail, I just try
> again ;) I'm probably not the only one how would like to use
> network-manager-vpnc with NetScreen/Juniper firewalls. I'm sorry but my
> knowledge of C, dbus, gnome and gtk+ programming is really poor :( But I
> will probably take a look at the code and try something ;)
> 
> Merry Christmas to everybody :)

For Juniper you need to use the openvpn plugin..  At least I have in the
past.  The one client with that POS concentrator finally got rid of it
thank god...