VPN client: Is there one for Linux ?

I want to use my Linux workstation to work from home.

My company uses an Intel Shiva VPN. Their network is a Windos domain.

Is there a VPN client for Linux?

I looked at pptp but that seems only for Microsoft tunneling

I looked at Freeswan, but it seems to be a server for setting up a VPN,
not a client for connecting to a VPN.

I looked at CIPE but i cannot tell if it's compatible with the Intel VPN.

262bffca wrote:
> I want to use my Linux workstation to work from home.
>
> My company uses an Intel Shiva VPN. Their network is a Windos domain.
>
> Is there a VPN client for Linux?
>
> I looked at pptp but that seems only for Microsoft tunneling
>
> I looked at Freeswan, but it seems to be a server for setting up a VPN,
> not a client for connecting to a VPN.
>
> I looked at CIPE but i cannot tell if it's compatible with the Intel VPN.
Freeswan is both a client and a server, and if you google for freesway
and Shiva I think there are some config notes available.
Neil

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Neil Horman wrote:

> Freeswan is both a client and a server, and if you google for freesway
> and Shiva I think there are some config notes available.
> Neil
>

I don't mean to be dense. But I downloaded and installed Freeswan
yesterday. The documentation is /sparse/ to say the least. I'm willing
to RTFM but in this case there is no Manual to read!

For example, if it is a client -- where is it? The howto's are all
about setting up a Linux box as a /server/ - but all I want to do is
connect to an existing VPN.

I looked at the config notes for Intel Netstructure on Freeswan.org but
since there is no docs about using Freeswan as a client, I have no idea
who to use that configuration!

262bffca wrote:
> Neil Horman wrote:
>
>> Freeswan is both a client and a server, and if you google for freesway
>> and Shiva I think there are some config notes available.
>> Neil
>>
>
> I don't mean to be dense. But I downloaded and installed Freeswan
> yesterday. The documentation is /sparse/ to say the least. I'm willing
> to RTFM but in this case there is no Manual to read!
>
> For example, if it is a client -- where is it? The howto's are all
> about setting up a Linux box as a /server/ - but all I want to do is
> connect to an existing VPN.
>
> I looked at the config notes for Intel Netstructure on Freeswan.org but
> since there is no docs about using Freeswan as a client, I have no idea
> who to use that configuration!
You're thinking about it in the wrong way. Freeswan doesn't really have
a client and a server binary. Its more of a peer model. You configure
connections under freeswan to listen for connections (a server setup) or
you configure it to establish a network connection/interface/tunnel
(client setup). All of these are defined in the ipsec.conf file (IIRC)
and are associated there with connection/tunnel "names" then you use the
ipsec utility from freeswan to enable or disable the connections.
Neil

--
Neil Horman
Red Hat, Inc., http://people.redhat.com/nhorman
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On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 12:38:00 +0000, 262bffca wrote:

> I want to use my Linux workstation to work from home.
>
> My company uses an Intel Shiva VPN. Their network is a Windos domain.
>
> Is there a VPN client for Linux?
>
> I looked at pptp but that seems only for Microsoft tunneling
>
> I looked at Freeswan, but it seems to be a server for setting up a VPN,
> not a client for connecting to a VPN.
>
> I looked at CIPE but i cannot tell if it's compatible with the Intel VPN.
shiva is a proprietary vpn tunnel implementation by intel, afaik there is
no linux client at this time.

I know V-ONE has a client named "SmartPass" - but if it works with
your VPN server I cannot tell...

Download it from: http://www.v-one.com/download.html

// Oxy


262bffca <killfileme@mofthas.beech.us> wrote in message news:<IywMb.6427$zj7.2285@newsread1.news.pas.earth link.net>...
> I want to use my Linux workstation to work from home.
>
> My company uses an Intel Shiva VPN. Their network is a Windos domain.
>
> Is there a VPN client for Linux?
>
> I looked at pptp but that seems only for Microsoft tunneling
>
> I looked at Freeswan, but it seems to be a server for setting up a VPN,
> not a client for connecting to a VPN.
>
> I looked at CIPE but i cannot tell if it's compatible with the Intel VPN.