Tuesday, January 08, 2008

Cisco vpn client 4.8 running on openSUSE 10.3

Peppie: here are some notes on how to install, configure and run the Cisco vpn client 4.8 on openSUSE 10.3.

First make sure that you are running kernel 2.6.22.13-0.3. Earlier versions of the kernel gave us problems during compile. Check your kernel version with:

# uname -r

Download version 4.8 of the client. You can download it from here: http://helpdesk.ugent.be/vpn/download/vpnclient-linux-x86_64-4.8.00.0490-k9.tar.gz. Earlier and later versions gave us problems and were not working. Our advice is to stick to version 4.8 for now.

Extract the downloaded file.

Download a patch for this client.

# wget http://tuxx-home.at/projects/cisco-vpnclient/vpnclient-linux-2.6.22.diff

Apply the patch:

# cd vpnclient
# patch -i ../vpnclient-linux-2.6.22.diff


Install the client:

# sudo ./vpn_install


Start the vpn service:

# sudo /etc/init.d/vpnclient_init start

Now you should be able to start the vpn service by:

# vpnclient connect yourPCFfile

2 comments:

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