From owner-freebsd-current Fri Jan 31 14: 0:44 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0200737B405 for ; Fri, 31 Jan 2003 14:00:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from rwcrmhc51.attbi.com (rwcrmhc51.attbi.com [204.127.198.38]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB2B343F93 for ; Fri, 31 Jan 2003 14:00:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from crist.clark@attbi.com) Received: from blossom.cjclark.org (12-234-89-252.client.attbi.com[12.234.89.252]) by rwcrmhc51.attbi.com (rwcrmhc51) with ESMTP id <2003013122004105100hsn3ee>; Fri, 31 Jan 2003 22:00:41 +0000 Received: from blossom.cjclark.org (localhost. [127.0.0.1]) by blossom.cjclark.org (8.12.6/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h0VM0eeq031274; Fri, 31 Jan 2003 14:00:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from crist.clark@attbi.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by blossom.cjclark.org (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h0VM0dC0031273; Fri, 31 Jan 2003 14:00:39 -0800 (PST) X-Authentication-Warning: blossom.cjclark.org: cjc set sender to crist.clark@attbi.com using -f Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 14:00:39 -0800 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: Christoph Kukulies Subject: Re: Cisco vpnclient Message-ID: <20030131220039.GB30498@blossom.cjclark.org> Reply-To: "Crist J. Clark" References: <200301311053.LAA25242@accms33.physik.rwth-aachen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200301311053.LAA25242@accms33.physik.rwth-aachen.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-URL: http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 11:53:24AM +0100, Christoph Kukulies wrote: > > Cisco is offering a VPN client for Linux. I wonder if it would be possible > to run this under FreeBSD. An extra linux kernel module is being built. > Is this already the 'ruled out'? That's just it. FreeBSD can run Linux userland applications really well... compatibility within the kernel is a cow of another color. To do /some/ of the things the standard Cisco VPN client does, it would need to be a kernel module. To do /a lot/ of what it does, including just a basic IPsec implementation, it could all run in userland. I doubt that they will break things up that way. But if enough people ask, Cisco will make a client for FreeBSD. Or they might be willing to open up their protocol so that third parties can build their own clients. > If this won't work, I'm afraid I will have to set a dedicated redhat 6.x/7.x > beside my FreeBSD gateway. Would it be possible to use NAT to > extend the VPN (I only have one dedicated fixed IP on the gateway). Cisco VPN clients do work behind NAT (provided the NAT gateway can deal with the traffic). -- Crist J. Clark | cjclark@alum.mit.edu | cjclark@jhu.edu http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ | cjc@freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message