Subject: Re: vpn client
To: Brad Spencer <brad@anduin.eldar.org>
From: None <mcmahill@mtl.mit.edu>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 06/15/2000 11:14:37
On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, Brad Spencer wrote:

> 
>    anyone know if there is a way to use a netbsd box as a VPN client for
>    system in which the IT people want me to use the "Nortel Extranet Access
>    Client" program under windows? 
> 
>    Thanks
>    -Dan
> 
> 
> 
> If that is really IPsec then there may be enough in NetBSD already to do
> this.  What sort of things are you allowed to do with that client??

don't know yet (computer is supposed to come in the next day or so and
SecurID card next week).

> 
> [... Lucent, where I work, has VPN gateways back into the company from the
> Net that seem to be mostly normal IPsec in tunnel mode with keys locked
> into a SecureID token.  They provide what appears to be a stock MS-WINDOWS
> client, but I haven't fiddled enough to know if NetBSD has all of the
> things needed to get it to work ....]
> 

-Dan