Re: [gentoo-user] How does cisco vpnclient find its .pcf file?

[William Kenworthy <billk@iinet.net.au>]

Thanks, this is info I have not been able to find elsewhere.  I will
look at vpnc. 

The configs are supplied by work, but being a weekend, its hard to ask
for directions.

BillK


On Sat, 2005-08-06 at 14:15 +0200, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Sat, 06 Aug 2005 18:26:57 +0800
> "W.Kenworthy" <billk@iinet.net.au> wrote:
> 
> > I have just installed the cisco vpn client and cant figure how it
> > accesses the .pcf configs under gentoo.  Can someone in the know tell me
> > how to specify a .pcf when issuing a /etc/init.d/vpnclient start ?
> 
> There wouldn't be a point doing so. This just loads the kernel module,
> it doesn't setablish a connection at that point.
> 
> > Where I work has given me a couple of different configs depending where
> > I access from, but the install cant seem to find them if I put them
> > in /etc/CiscoSystemsVPNClient/Profiles (and how would it choose one from
> > multiple profiles?).
> 
> You have to connect using vpnclient itself. You can specify the profile
> then. It's "vpnclient connect profilename" if I remember correctly (for
> profilename.pcf). The kernel module just cares for packet injection in
> Linux's ip stack and brings a IPsec stack.
> 
> Note that there's a more elegant solution with "vpnc" (also in
> portage), if it fits for you (still hasn't some functions of Cisco's
> client, but it's free and you don't have to use a binary proprietary
> kernel module).
> 
> -hwh
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