Nortel Netlock VPN client

[Shannon McMackin]

Neal D. Becker wrote:
> Gunnar vS Kramm wrote:
> 
> 
>>Original e-mail from: Ben Steeves (bcs at metacon.ca):
>>
>>
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>Has anyone had any luck getting Nortel's Netlock VPN client working in
>>>Fedora Core 1?  The supplied RH8 SRPM builds & installs fine, but once
>>>it's installed (not even running), my network is dead, and the start_cvc
>>>command can't connect to http://127.0.0.1:9161 like it's supposed to.
>>>
>>>Jim Drabb sent an e-mail to the list back in November asking this very
>>>question and didn't get a response -- I tried e-mailing him directly but
>>>the mail bounced... Jim, if you're out there, did you ever get this
>>>working?
>>>
>>>Ben
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>>Ben,
>>
>>I have also been trying to get the Netlock client working with Fedora.  I
>>have not gotten it to work. I finally contacted Tech Support about this
>>and
>>they confirmed that the do not have a client for Fedora yet.  I think they
>>said that might have one ready in May.
>>
>>By the way Nortel sold the Netlock Client to Apani Networks
>>(www.apani.com). It was their tech. support I talked to.
>>
>>
> 
> 
> Don't know if this will help, but maybe openvpn could help you.  It's great,
> and MUCH simpler than ipsec-based VPN.
> 
> 
> 
Netlock is not ipsec-based.  It actually functions over an ssh tunnel. 
There should be a beta available soon for FC1.  Unfortunately, they may 
focus on RHEL3 before they work on FC1, but I think the issues are the same.

Shannon McMackin
mcmackin at shentel.net