Nortel VPN Client

Neal D. Becker nbecker at hns.com
Thu Oct 9 17:15:37 UTC 2003


On Thursday 09 October 2003 01:03 pm, James Drabb wrote:
> Hey group,
>
> Has anyone gotten the Nortel VPN Client to work under Fedora Core 2?
> It works under Red Hat 8/9.  It is an app that has two binary only
> kernel modules and one binary only program named nleac.  It connect
> allows me to make a VPN connection to my work to a Nortel Contivity VPN.
> I compiled it from source and also tried to rebuild the SRPM with no
> luck.  It compiles fine since Nortel does what NVidia does and just has
> a small wrapper that gets compiled around the binary modules.  I
> exported CC=gcc32 but that didn't help.  The modules load fine with a
> message about tainting the kernel.  However, one they are loaded, no
> network activity works on any interface.  netstat -a just hangs.  As
> soon as I remove the two Nortel modules, eth0 begins to function again.
>
> Any help would be apprecia

Similar problem here.  I wrote to Nortel, but they didn't even bother to 
reply!





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