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

[Hans-Werner Hilse <hilse@web.de>]

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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