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June 17, 2004
Upgrading the VPN
Sun's upgrading the hardware (or whatever) used for the VPN. At home I'm still running Red Hat 9, and I guess that's not a supported platform.
The software is from Cisco. Partially documented, documentation almost incomprehensible. I should probably just know what to do with this by osmosis or something, but I don't (real IP addresses replaced):
$ vpnclient connect holland Cisco Systems VPN Client Version 4.0.4 (B) Copyright (C) 1998-2003 Cisco Systems, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Client Type(s): Linux Running on: Linux 2.4.21 #1 SMP Mon Jul 28 18:39:02 CEST 2003 i686 Initializing the VPN connection. Contacting the gateway at sun.gate.ip.addr1 Contacting the gateway at sun.gate.ip.addr2 (backup) Contacting the gateway at sun.gate.ip.addr3 (backup) Contacting the gateway at sun.gate.ip.addr4 (backup) Contacting the gateway at sun.gate.ip.addr5 (backup) Contacting the gateway at sun.gate.ip.addr6 (backup) Contacting the gateway at sun.gate.ip.addr7 (backup) Contacting the gateway at sun.gate.ip.addr8 (backup) Contacting the gateway at sun.gate.ip.addr9 (backup) Secure VPN Connection terminated locally by the Client Reason: Remote peer is no longer responding. There are no new notification messages at this time. $
What? I missed a step here...
When your VPN connection works, at it was a minor pain getting it working the first time, the last thing you want to do is upgrade the software to something even less scrutable than last time.
Posted by Mark at June 17, 2004 10:27 PM