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I have several customers that I connect to via Cisco VPN Client (v5 if that matters) on Windows. I'm doing some tidying up and was wondering if there was a simple way to be able to connect to the same vpn endpoints from a Linux desktop.

It is our clients who have purchased Cisco equipment so I can't simply download the Cisco Linux client without a login. If need be I can ask one of our clients to do the download but I'd rather sort this myself if possible.

After some digging round in ServerFault I found some references to vpnc. Is this a suitable solution or are there some additional hoops to jump through?

LRE
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I don't usually post links to my own material, but I happened to write a quick tutorial on vpnc on exactly this topic. Maybe it will be of use to you.

Kamil Kisiel
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VPNC worked great for me. I have never installed it myself, but it came pre-installed on Fedora 10 and 11. I loaded the .pcf file like it were any other client (using the NetworkManager frontend) and fired up the connection.

baumgart
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    how is it that whenever I ask what I think will be a hard question someone has a quick concise answer up within minutes? – LRE Oct 20 '09 at 02:45
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I use vpnc all the time trough kvpnc graphical interface co connect to a 3005 vpn concentrator. Works great.

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Have you try out the Shrew Soft VPN Client ? It is free and available for both Windows and Linux.

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