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toni

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Registered: 2011-10-15

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[SOLVED] How to configure a CISCO compatible network VPN

I have a *.pcf file with my credentials provided to me by the administrador at work. This is cisco based and I would like to know how to set a cisco VPN properly in order to connect to the VPN at work.

Thanks.

Last edited by toni (2013-05-25 11:22:32)

Raynman

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Re: [SOLVED] How to configure a CISCO compatible network VPN

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/cisco-vpnclient/

toni

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Re: [SOLVED] How to configure a CISCO compatible network VPN

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/cisco-vpnclient/

Thanks! but now when trying to execute I have some problems.

First I load cisco_ipsec module as root:

# modprobe cisco_ipsec

then I put my *.pcf file into /etc/opt/cisco-vpnclient/Profiles and change permissions for my current user to execute cisco client as a normal user:

# chmod 4111 /opt/cisco-vpnclient/bin/cvpnd

Finally I execute cisco vpn client:

$ vpnclient connect myProfile.pcf

and I get below error message:

The profile specified could not be read.

so as said here:http://micro.stanford.edu/wiki/How_to_i … x_computer, it is seems to be a problem with *.pcf file permissions so I perform the following:

# chmod 755 myProfile.pcf
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 660 may 25 12:59 myProfile.pcf

and then again I execute cisco vpn client as normal user:

$ vpnclient connect myProfile.pcf

but again I receive the same message error:

The profile specified could not be read.

What's wrong?

Thanks in advance.

Last edited by toni (2013-05-25 11:03:46)

toni

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Re: [SOLVED] How to configure a CISCO compatible network VPN

I have already solved. The problem was that I was specifing the extension .pcf and it is not necessary so now working by doing:

$ vpnclient connect myProfile