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Date:      Sun, 10 Apr 2005 13:41:20 -0500
From:      Ash <omniBSD@speakeasy.net>
To:        Scott Mitchell <scott+lists.freebsd@fishballoon.org>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Connect to Cisco VPN server from FreeBSD?
Message-ID:  <42597350.4000502@speakeasy.net>
In-Reply-To: <20050410181657.GB893@tuatara.fishballoon.org>
References:  <20050410153834.GA893@tuatara.fishballoon.org> <425961D5.8090403@speakeasy.net> <20050410181657.GB893@tuatara.fishballoon.org>

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Scott Mitchell wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 12:26:45PM -0500, Ash wrote:
> 
>>Scott Mitchell wrote:
>>
>>>Hi all,
>>>
>>>As in the subject - has anyone managed to get a FreeBSD machine to connect
>>>to a Cisco VPN server, using IPSec and 2-factor authentication (password +
>>>SecurID card)?  My employer has been acquired by another company, and this
>>>will soon be the only remote-access method available.  Linux client
>>>software exists, but given that it relies on a kernel module I'm not
>>>holding out much hope of it working.  The security/vpnc port looks like it
>>>might be useful.  No idea if racoon + FreeBSD native IPSec can be persuaded
>>>to do the SecurID authentication.
>>>
>>>I would try all these things myself, except I don't have any account
>>>details for the server yet.  I really don't want to keep a Linux or Windows
>>>machine around just to connect to the office...
>>>
>>>Many thanks in advance,
>>>
>>>	Scott
>>>
>>
>>I have not personally used this, however I have had reports of users 
>>connecting to a Cisco VPN 3000 box that I administered at one point with 
>>the following client:
>>
>>http://www.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/~massar/vpnc/
> 
> 
> Thanks, that looks promising.  The SecurID thing is apparently just a
> flavour of XAUTH which seems to be supported, so it might just work.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> 	Scott
> 

Whoops forgot to mention that I had configured out VPN3000 to 
authenticate users using SecurID. The vpnc users were able to 
authenticate just fine.

OT, but they were also able to use vpnc to bypass split-tunneling 
restrictions (no real surprise there).

Good luck,
-Ash



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