Re: Attaching through a Cisco IPSec/UDP gateway

[George Michaelson <geeohgeegeeoh%gmail.com@localhost>]

On 27/01/2009, at 5:03 AM, Michael van Elst wrote:

> tls%rek.tjls.com@localhost (Thor Lancelot Simon) writes:
>
> > On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 05:39:47AM +0100, Lubomir Sedlacik wrote:
> > > On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 12:12:41PM -0600, David Dudley wrote:
> > > > My comany uses a Cisco VPN server to limit access to their internal
> > > > network.  Is there a way I can connect NetBSD through this to  
> > > > access
> > > > the internal network?
> > >
> > > See net/vpnc in pkgsrc.
>
> > That will work, but you shouldn't need it -- the native IPsec does  
> > what
> > most Cisco configurations these days will want, with no need to  
> > trombone
> > packets in and out of the kernel as vpnc does.
>
> vpnc also doesn't coexist with the native IPsec.

Is there a HOWTO for this, giving a pre-canned config to make it work  
with a Cisco head-end?

vpnc, its 4 lines in a .conf and .. it works.

-G