RE: VPN

[Dan Schad <dschad seielect com>]

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> ** snipped **
>

>>I'm confused about this.  What is your firewall, the NT Server?  Then you
>>are using the NT Server as your gateway for the Win2000 machine as well as
>>your Linux Box?

>I'm trying to get into my work machine - the firewall my be some Sun
>computers or something else, I don't know and security isn't talking.

>>Are you at home connecting to the systems locally?  Based on what you said
>>above I suppose you are at home with the Linux Box at home able to ping
the
>>NT Server and Win 2000 machines and when you traceroute you are
tracerouting
>>to your work systems?

>I am at home on Linux.  Using the CISCO VPN software written for Linux and
>the java scripting from PCAnywhere I am able to get through my work
Firewall
>and log onto the NT boxes that work as my departments servers and onto one
>of 5 computers in my department set up for remote login using PCAnywhere.
>One of these 5 computers is the one sitting on my desk at work.

>I am trying to avoid the CISCO software and the java taken from PCAnywhere
-
>hoping that if I use the VPN software supplied with RedHat 9 things will be
>faster and a little more stable.

>>>Anyway, when I go to Start ==> Internet ===> More ===> Remote Desktop
>>>Connection and click on that the first message I get is SLP not
>>>installed correctly.

>Are you running Novell?  Do not know much about the SLP but it would seem
to
>be related to Novell Discovery.  Is the SLP on the linux dying or on the
PC?

>I know my department has a Novell server but I didn't think I was going
>through that.  If I am going through that how does one go about
>installing/configuring SLP?

>
>>>So, I guess my first question is = how do I set up SLP?  I looked
>>>through the WEBMIN screens but I see no place to set up SLP.
>>>
>>>Any help you can give would be great.
>>>
>>>Brad

>>Sorry, can't help more without a little more information?
>>Dan


>Not a problem, you ask the questions and I'll try to come up with some
>answers that help.  Problem here at work is there are 8,000 employees, some
>of which have been allowed (forced) to use VPN to get more work done in the
>same 24 hour day.  Officially, the company is only supporting Windows
>machines but most of the support are using Linux but they aren't talking
>about how they do it (don't want to support it).  So, it's OK if I use it
>but I'm on my own and I'd like to get rid of the dual booting just to do
>more work.
>
>Brad


Brad,

I couple of things you will have to know.
In order to establish a VPN connection you will have to know the Encryption
methods like IPSec, MDES5, etc.  You will also have to know the public key
setup in order to estblish the connection and the Encryption methods will
initiate the creation and exchange of the private keys.  I've not setup RH 9
to use it's VPN.  I've used FreeSwan which is a great product (A little
techie though).

If you can get the necessary information out of the Cisco VPN setups you
should be able to run through the VPN setups on RH 9 (I think it's wizard
based).  If not you could try and download the FreeSwan RPM for RH 9,
install the RPM.  They have good documentation on that.

The SLP was not found on the RH Knowledge base accept for the global IP port
information.  On Novell's site it discusses SLP for Linux and how to install
or change the config files.  It would appear that you system had or has SLP
or requires SLP to work on your corp network.

Try this link out and see if it helps.

http://www.novell.com/documentation/lg/edir87/index.html?page=/documentation
/lg/edir87/edir87/data/adx281u.html

So, as I mentioned above, if you can find out the VPN setting information
you might have a chance, otherwise, you might be stuck with what you have
for now.

If you get futher post again and I can try and help more.

Dan


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