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June 18, 2004

More on upgrading the VPN

What's really not helpful about the log messages -- see Upgrading the VPN -- is how they say:

Contacting the gateway at sun.gate.ip.addr1

And that's it. Nothing about why the gateway ignores you. No hint at what that reason might be.

Why tell you anything? They gave you the source code... for the kernel module. Not for the client.

$ grep "gateway" *
... (nothing with the string in question) ...
Binary file vpnclient matches
$ strings vpnclient | grep gateway
Lost contact with the security gateway. Check your network connection
Contacting the gateway at
$

And I wonder why Sun IT doesn't want to support it on Red Hat...

Posted by Mark at June 18, 2004 09:46 PM