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bas at vanschaik

Nov 17, 2004, 6:07 PM

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Everything seems to be OK, but... (SOLVED!)

Hi all (especially Maurice, Tomas Mraz and Martin von Gagern)!

Using the new vpnc 0.3.1 (from Debian unstable), my problem is solved! I
don't know how to thank you all, with adding support for IPSec over UDP!
I think I'll publish some parts of my configuration in a HOWTO (for the
Utrecht University in special, but of course also useable for other
VPNs) on my website. I'll give you a sign when I'm done doing so.
Thanks again! And again!

-- Bas

Bas van Schaik wrote:

> Hello Hans,
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> just an additional note...
>>
>> On Fri, 5 Nov 2004, Bas van Schaik wrote:
>>
>>> Since a couple of days I'm trying to connect to the Utrecht
>>> University (The Netherlands) VPN, department of Computer Sciences.
>>> Because I'm tired of all problems using the closed-source Cisco
>>> client (which sometimes works, sometimes not, but routes all trafic
>>> through the VPN tunnen, and I *don't* want that!), I tried using vpnc.
>>
>>
>>
>> I personally didn't had very much problems with the original vpn
>> client in last time. I don't like this statically compiled monster,
>> but it works. The behaviour of what is being tunneled can be
>> customized by patching the "interceptor.c" file. Theres a single
>> method for checking what interface it is allowed to bind to. You
>> could patch it to just listen to a dummy interface and manage what to
>> route via the kernel's routing table.
>>
> Hmmm... That should do the trick...
>
>> if someone's interested, i could send the needed modification.
>> Patching your driver is on your own risk - as it's prohibited by the
>> license agreement. But in some countries you're allowed to "fix"
>> "broken" software....
>
>
> Sure! I would like to receive your patch!
>
> -- Bas
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aia21 at cam

Nov 17, 2004, 9:57 PM

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Everything seems to be OK, but... (SOLVED!) [In reply to]

On Wed, 17 Nov 2004, Bas van Schaik wrote:
> Using the new vpnc 0.3.1 (from Debian unstable), my problem is solved! I don't
> know how to thank you all, with adding support for IPSec over UDP! I think
> I'll publish some parts of my configuration in a HOWTO (for the Utrecht
> University in special, but of course also useable for other VPNs) on my
> website. I'll give you a sign when I'm done doing so.
> Thanks again! And again!

You might want to have a look at the instructions I wrote for the
University of Cambridge, UK (where I work). They are at:

http://www-uxsup.csx.cam.ac.uk/misc/CambridgeVPNLinux.html

Hope you find them useful. (-: Just one item of note is that the
sources/rpms on the above URL are customized for Cambridge and I have also
added a setup script that asks you questions and writes /etc/vpnc.conf
with the answers and if /etc/vpnc.conf is present it uses that for the
defaults (if user just presses return).

I will be updating the instructions soon to add Debian as someone just
today emailed me with what they had to do different / more on Debian.

Best regards,

Anton
--
Anton Altaparmakov <aia21 at cam.ac.uk> (replace at with @)
Unix Support, Computing Service, University of Cambridge, CB2 3QH, UK
Linux NTFS maintainer / IRC: #ntfs on irc.freenode.net
WWW: http://linux-ntfs.sf.net/ & http://www-stu.christs.cam.ac.uk/~aia21/

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