[SOLVED] vpn client on slackware

mcnalu · 07-29-2010, 11:25 AM

I need to connect to a VPN at my work from my laptop running slackware 13.1. I've been given an IP, a username and password and told that I need a VPN client supporting IPSEC.

openvpn is out because it doesn't do IPSEC

vpnc didn't work, giving an invalid response message which I can't understand and it seems vpnc isn't actively developed anymore.

Any recommendations?

guanx · 07-29-2010, 01:35 PM

I have not been using IPSEC. But have you looked at this:
http://ipsec-tools.sourceforge.net/

regis_n_bits · 07-29-2010, 06:22 PM

There is also Openswan
http://www.openswan.org/

and StrongSwan
http://www.strongswan.org/index.htm

Have not tried either of these packages.

There is a Slackbuild for StrongSwan on slackbuilds.org.
http://slackbuilds.org/repository/13...rk/strongswan/

vst · 07-30-2010, 06:31 AM

There's NetworkManager on slackbuilds.org, I am not sure if it does IPSEC, but you might want to take a look.

mcnalu · 07-30-2010, 01:15 PM

Thanks for the suggestions. I tried networkmanager with the vpnc plugin, but it failed with an unhelpful error message.

I've since discovered that the vpn only seems to work with a check point snx client (no idea why). To use that I need libpam.

I'm going to see if I can just ssh tunnel in as i'd rather not be forced to use this annoylingly non-standard vpn.

mcnalu · 07-31-2010, 10:46 AM

I've managed to get the snx vpn client working following the tips here.