Latrobe University vpn
Hi All wishing you a happy New Year, has anyone in the group ever managed to connect to La Trobe Univeristy's vpn services from a linux box? If so how? The only options that IT gives me is Cisco Anyconnect for Windows or Apple. I have tried it under Windows 7 64 running in Virtual Box and can get a connection but once connected I can't get to any url either inside or outside the University. I would prefer a pure Linux solution, it is overkill running Virtual Box and Windows 7 just to get to a web browser. Stripes.
stripes theotoky <stripes.theotoky@googlemail.com> wrote:
has anyone in the group ever managed to connect to La Trobe Univeristy's vpn services from a linux box? If so how? The only options that IT gives me is Cisco Anyconnect for Windows or Apple.
If it's a Cisco VPN, the vpnc package may be able to establish a connection. I needed it for the University of Melbourne's VPN earlier in the year, and it worked reliably once connected. There are tutorial and HOWTO documents available via your favourite Web search engine.
On Sat, 31 Dec 2011, 15:36:16 EST, stripes theotoky <stripes.theotoky@googlemail.com> wrote:
The only options that IT gives me is Cisco Anyconnect for Windows or Apple.
Cisco do make a 32-bit Anyconnect Linux client, if you can get that then these links should help if you are using 64-bit Linux. http://scottlinux.com/2011/01/31/cisco-anyconnect-in-64bit-ubuntu-linux/ http://blog.mattwoodward.com/cisco-anyconnect-vpn-client-on-64-bit-ubuntu Best of luck.. Chris -- Chris Samuel - http://www.csamuel.org/ - on mobile
Chris Samuel <chris@csamuel.org> wrote:
Cisco do make a 32-bit Anyconnect Linux client, if you can get that then these links should help if you are using 64-bit Linux.
The free/open alternative appears to be: Package: openconnect New: yes State: not installed Version: 3.02-2 Priority: optional Section: net Maintainer: Ross Burton <ross@debian.org> Uncompressed Size: 152 k Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3), libproxy0 (>= 0.2.3), libssl1.0.0 (>= 1.0.0), libxml2 (>= 2.7.4), zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4) Description: Open client for Cisco AnyConnect VPN OpenConnect is an open client for the Cisco AnyConnect VPN. Homepage: http://git.infradead.org/users/dwmw2/openconnect.git
On Sat, 31 Dec 2011 04:00:27 PM Jason White wrote:
The free/open alternative appears to be:
Ahh, excellent, my brief Googling on my N900 didn't show that! A better homepage (i.e. a descriptive one, not the git URL) is: http://www.infradead.org/openconnect/ Makes a very good case for not bothering with the Cisco code.. -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne, VIC This email may come with a PGP signature as a file. Do not panic. For more info see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenPGP
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 31/12/11 15:36, stripes theotoky wrote:
has anyone in the group ever managed to connect to La Trobe Univeristy's vpn services from a linux box? If so how? The only options that IT gives me is Cisco Anyconnect for Windows or Apple.
My work uses an AnyConnect VPN. If you browse to the URL (something like https://vpn.blah.com/) it should prompt you to fire up Java, and install the official Linux-compatible VPN client. I have also had great success with the network-manager-openconnect{,-gnome} package which lets me configure the whole lot from the GUI, integrated into NetworkManager. Much nicer than the horrible Cisco client. Those that recommended vpnc -- that only works for traditional (IPsec-based) Cisco VPNs. AnyConnect is what they call an SSL VPN -- a TCP SSL connection, encapsulating who-knows-what. TCP-in-TCP a bad idea? Hah, what did you say? I forgot already. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.17 (Darwin) Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk7/z7MACgkQvs6Qqs8TxBoiYQCfd7XxhgtvfBkdUmnwzQPMSStP OLoAn0WeBs961uRngEnOIGdT4V9R+TF8 =ZDLQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
Jeremy Visser <jeremy@visser.name> wrote:
Those that recommended vpnc -- that only works for traditional (IPsec-based) Cisco VPNs. AnyConnect is what they call an SSL VPN -- a TCP SSL connection, encapsulating who-knows-what. TCP-in-TCP a bad idea? Hah, what did you say? I forgot already.
It's UDP by default, with fall-back to TCP encapsulation according to the Openconnect Web page.
Jeremy Visser wrote:
Those that recommended vpnc -- that only works for traditional (IPsec-based) Cisco VPNs. AnyConnect is what they call an SSL VPN -- a TCP SSL connection, encapsulating who-knows-what. TCP-in-TCP a bad idea? Hah, what did you say? I forgot already.
Ugh, I knew it was TLS but I didn't know it was TCP. Thanks for the heads-up. (Nor did I realize they were phasing out ipsec in favour of TCP-TLS. Double ugh.)
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