VPN (migrating from Ubuntu)

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peterlauri

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Hi,

I have been using Ubuntu for quite a while now, but after buying the iPhone 3G I fell in love with Apple products, and now I am stuck with a MacBook Pro :)

I have been connecting to the corporate network via vpnc on my ubuntu, and it has been working flawless. But now I have problems to configure my MacBook's VPN settings to it will work.

The only information I have is this, and this I used to make my Ubuntu work for my VPN connection:

Gateway: 1.2.3.4
Group name: linux-vpn
Username: myusername
Type: IPSec gateway
Auth: Xauth username

I don't provide any secrets or anything, and still it works. Anyone with insights of how to configure the Mac VPN to connect me to my corporate network. The corporation is one of the largest telecommunication company in the world, but they have no support for Mac users :(

/Peter
 
Have you already created a new IPSec VPN connection, and you're having trouble getting it to connect, are are you asking how, exactly, to create the VPN connection?

If the latter, head on over to the "Network" pane of the System Preferences, then click the "+" symbol in the lower left-hand corner to add a new network connection. Select "VPN" and "IPSec/L2TP" as the type, and the rest is pretty self explanatory... post back if this doesn't get you there!
 
I have already created the IPSec VPN connection. It cannot connect even that I think I enter the information needed (as you said pretty self explanatory). But as I don't have any secret, I leave that blank. But it doesn't even try to connect, just complains that I haven't given any secret pass phrase.

And it forgets the "Group name" all the time :(
 
I've tried this myself on my iMac G5 running 10.4.11 using the built-in VPN client and it hasn't worked, though my GNU/Linux PCs can connect to my work's VPN just fine using vpnc.

EDCC, the VPN I'm accessing is from a Cisco VPN concentrator....would that have anything to do with why it won't work in OS X's VPN client (at least the Tiger version)? Vpnc was created as an alternative for the Cisco VPN client package (since Cisco's package isn't free). When I've used the Mac version of the Cisco VPN client, it does work. However, sometimes it has a tendency to do some weird things overall to the OS.
 
Yes, a Cisco VPN requires the Cisco VPN client software in order to connect, as Cisco VPNs do not conform to the standard IPSec/L2TP VPN definition (there's extra layers of authentication, etc.).
 
Then the only other workaround would be to install Fink or MacPorts and then install vpnc through there. That should get peterlauri going if vpnc does in fact work.
 
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