Will Contivity work ove Wine??

bocacorazon · 11-08-2004, 10:14 AM

My company uses the Nortel Contivity VPN switch.
I asked for a linux version for the client -that I know exists, and you can buy from Apani Networks, the original maker of the Contivity client- but they won't buy it for me since they want anything to do with Linux...

I wonder whether the windows version would work over Wine.

Has anybody tried this?

I'll appreciate your answers.
Thanks

UsualTuxpect · 11-08-2004, 11:55 AM

It's pretty sad that the people in your office are averse to the idea of using L1nux..

Check these out --->

http://sisyphus.iocaine.com/pipermai...er/000415.html
http://www.freeswan.org/intro.html

If they are of any help..

IMO, don't worry about things working or not, go ahead and and install it on Wine , if it fails ..so be it, Atleast everybody will know that it doesn't work. Be the first..

Peace!!

bocacorazon · 11-08-2004, 12:52 PM

Thanks for your advice. I had stumbled upon FreeSWan but I was never able to crack the networking mumbo jumbo.

I will try with Wine and post the results.

I asked the question so I don't spend a week frustrated because I cannot get it to work and then somebody says: "Of course it won;t, because of yadda yadda yadda IPSec won't yadda yadda yadda" or some other obscure networking sumbling block.

By the way, I'm also a satisfied Gentoo user. Best distro around. Love it.

MrJoshua · 06-14-2005, 01:38 PM

I am having trouble with Apani right now, since they are not supporting RHEL, or FC3-FC4.

I had no problems with Apani when I used Gentoo, but my new company requires you use a supported Linux "RHEL" so I am stuck with no contivity client. I do not understand my company pays alot for enterprise Apani, and they are just slow as molasis about supporting newer distros.

javaroast · 06-14-2005, 02:33 PM

I don't know for sure, but my guess is that there isn't a real good chance of the Contivity Client running in WINE. The Client does some pretty low level things with the Windows network stack. It's still worth trying, but I wouldn't want to bet on it's chances of running.

MrJoshua · 06-15-2005, 08:20 AM

I agree, VPN is a very low level process, that is why Apani is taking so long for newer 2.6.10+ kernel support.