Re: IPSEC VPN: How-to?

On Sun, 22 Jun 2003 19:10:57 -0400, Vikas Agnihotri wrote:

> I am currently using SafeNet/Soft-PK VPN software to login to my corporate
> network using my Windows 2000 machine.
>
> This involves loading a personal certificate, a security policy, a CA cert
> and another .p12 or .pem file, not sure.
>
> I just 'activate security policy', ping the corporate gateway and a
> username/password dialog box pops up. the password uses a SecurID token in
> addition to my personal password.
>
> Is it possible to use the same setup on my RH9 machine? Ideally my VPN
> admins wouldnt have to change anything on their side.
>
> I would just want to use some VPN client on Linux, import the certs,
> security policy, etc, like I do in Windows 2000 and use my VPN.
>
> How can I do this? Any pointers would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks
>
> [Sorry for the cross-posting, I am not sure which newsgroup this is
> appropriate for]


FreeSwan can do this.. You might want to make sure if they are using l2tp
with the IPSEC.. most w2k machine do...

On Mon, 23 Jun 2003 12:10:06 GMT, c1rcu1t <spam@spamgohere.com> wrote:


> FreeSwan can do this.. You might want to make sure if they are using
> l2tp
> with the IPSEC.. most w2k machine do...

I read the docs on freeswan, l2tp, etc, but the problem seems to be that
none of these support the SecurID user authentication that my VPN uses.

Currently, I use SafeNet/Soft-PK software on Windows 2000 to connect to the
VPN. As part of the authentication process (Phase 1), it pops up a dialog
box for my username. My password is my actual password and then I append
the 6-digit number on my SecurID token.

How can I do this on Linux?

Or is there a way I can use my Windows 2000 box as a "stepping stone" to my
VPN?

Thanks