Comments on: Howto: Connect to a Cisco VPN using Ubuntu Linux 10.04

By: Aniket Anikhindi

Aniket Anikhindi — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 10:07:31 +0000

Wow man, worked like a charm.

I first did pcf2vpnc, then added the 2 lines as you suggested (1: Windows faking thing, 2: NAT related). Thereafter I got the bind error, so used –local-port 0 on the command line.

It asked me the VPN password, I prefer it that way, and sailed through!

Thanks much!

By: Peter

Peter — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 01:39:38 +0000

Thank you so much, I had found so many other tutorials and blog articles on this that didn’t mention the critical piece for me, the Application version to fake being a Windows machine.

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 17:28:19 +0000

Thanks!

By: David Turanski

David Turanski — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 13:04:35 +0000

Should be sudo vpnc-disconnect

By: pete

pete — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 14:27:39 +0000

The disconnect command “sudo vpn-disconnect” was not recognized. Any ideas?

By: pete

pete — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 03:07:17 +0000

Works on 10.10. I had “error binding to source port” and added the option –local-port 0 as the program suggested. I was trying earlier to use KVpnc but couldn’t get it past this binding program. I also had to –enable-1des as it suggested.

By: AT

AT — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 19:05:14 +0000

Great, It works on Maverick!

By: Alan

Alan — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 22:20:20 +0000

I’m getting the following error when trying to create the config file:

“bash: default.conf: Permission denied”

This happens even when I use sudo. I know this is probably something silly. Can anyone please let me know what it is?

Thanks in advance for your time!

By: peacekeepa

peacekeepa — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 10:02:35 +0000

yup, that worked perfectly, although i decrypted the vpn group password using the cicso-decrypt.c utility. I didn’t include the xauth password as we use RSA tokens for authentication, and wanted to be prompted each time.