Install vpnc, sudo apt-get install vpnc network-manager-vpnc Try a manual connect, sudo vpnc And provide the login details: IPSec gateway example.com IPSec ID my-group IPSec secret my-group-pwd IKE Authmode hybrid Xauth username my-username Xauth password my-password Copy the configuration into a new profile sudo cp /etc/vpnc/example.conf /etc/vpnc/myprofile.conf And edit it with your details. You may [...]
Cisco has it’s Application Extension Platform which provides hardware modules to plug in to some of its routers that allow to run a Linux environment that can interface with the IOS. 3Com has its Open Network Initiative. For a good overview of the topic read this. The article mentions some obvious applications, but one of [...]
Just a reminder for the future – with time the NAT traslation tables on our office Cisco router get full and you start to get timeout on connections. You usually notice it when a NATted browser can’t access a page, but you can ping the server from the router. To clear the dynamic translation table [...]