Comments on: Cisco VPN installation issue with Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron

By: saleem

saleem — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 18:09:32 +0000

I am using Cisco VPN client on Ubuntu 8.04 LTS. No firestarter installed.
Using BSNL broadband.
In Network | connections Automatic DHCp selected.

starting vpnclient I could authenticate into the server.
However afyer that when i try to ftp to the server (ftp xxx.xxx.xxx) it gives a message name or service not found.
Similarly in the browser (opera / firefox) I cannot open any site.
could any body suggest a solution

By: chinna_Saeb

chinna_Saeb — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 18:05:21 +0000

we use certificate manager for installing certificate in Cisco VPN client

How we install the certifcates in VPNC

By: Arun’s Blog » Installing Cisco VPN and VPNC in Ubuntu

Arun’s Blog » Installing Cisco VPN and VPNC in Ubuntu — Wed, 20 May 2009 20:53:54 +0000

[...] note: Read this post before you continue, if you have all the latest kernel updates in Hardy [...]

By: Arun

Arun — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 13:52:55 +0000

Thanks for the updates Marion.

By: Marion Delgado

Marion Delgado — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 21:34:18 +0000

I did what skramstad suggested, on blind faith (albeit he should have said cisco_skbuff_offset.patch, and even though when I got to the directory to get what the real name was, I was sorely tempted to use instead the 4.8.01.patch instead of the 2.6.24.final.diff.

At any rate, on my Acer netbook running Ibex 2.6.17-24-generic, only skramstead’s method worked. Just to be cautious, I didn’t fix the CFLAGS until I had applied both patches. The first seems to let you compile cisco_ipsec.ko and the 2nd, Interceptor.

after the fact i sandboxed it and tried the 4.802 and 4.8.01 and neither work, they will both fix the CFLAGS, which is easy to do by hand reliably, but are incompatible with cisco_skbuff_offset.patch, you can apply either but not both.

By: vpn

vpn — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 21:44:02 +0000

Have you tried OpenVPN? I just got through setting it up on my network.
It works really well. Setup can be a little hairy,
but I found a quickstart tutorial on the web and got everything squared away in about an hour.
It also has a lot of functionality (complexity) if you need to go down that road.

By: Tux

Tux — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 18:03:47 +0000

Thanks for the information! My vpn

By: Arun

Arun — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 14:57:26 +0000

If the installation went through, then that directory should be there. Did you install the patch? Did you try comment number 42? If you tried all, then I’m not sure why it’s not working. Try Ubuntuforums.org.

By: sideburns

sideburns — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 02:07:54 +0000

no i didnt get any error messages, and i’ve tried it twice now, plus i can’t find the folder it supposedly installed too. Like i said im fairly new to Ubuntu and the linux OS’s in general but if i cant make this work i cant get internet on campus for my classes,

which is a big time bummer.

By: Arun

Arun — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 01:59:37 +0000

If the installation went fine, then sudo /etc/init.d/vpnclient_init start should work. Did you get any error message when you typed ./vpn_install?