[ale] cisco vpn help

[Michael Hirsch]

On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 8:22 AM, Jim Popovitch <yahoo at jimpop.com> wrote:
> 2008/10/9 mike barnes <mdb3624 at gmail.com>:
>> I have a cisco vpn client for windows which has all of the vpn information.
>> I need to get that information and move it to a linux machine.
>>
>> Does anyone know how I can do this?
>
> Several ways.
>
> 1) Get the Cisco Linux vpnclient and use the same .pcf file as you did
> on Windows.
>
> 2) (If running Gnome) Add the NetworkManager Vpnc extensions and
> import your .pcf into NetworkManager.
>
> 3) Install vpnc and create a /etc/vpnc/*.conf script with the details
> from you .pcf

Only problem with 3) is that there is often an encrypted secret in the
.pcf file and vpnc needs the plain text.  The good news is that there
are scrits, and even a website, you can use to decrypt the secret.

In generate I recommend using vpnc instead of the cisco client.  It
doesn't go into your kernel and need recompiling every time you
upgrade, and it support 64 bit and multiprocessor.  Last time I tried
the cisco client it didn't support those.  Maybe that has changed.

Michael