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Re: VPN for Solaris
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeffrey I. Schiller)
Tue Jun 28 11:37:48 2005
From: "Jeffrey I. Schiller" <jis@MIT.EDU>
To: Alex T Prengel <alexp@mit.edu>
Cc: ops@mit.edu, release-team@mit.edu
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Simple question: Has anyone verified that Athena even works through the
VPN? I am running a variant of Athena/Linux on my laptop and I had to
patch Zephyr (for example) to get it to work through the VPN.
-Jeff
On Tue, 2005-06-28 at 11:19, Alex T Prengel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Does someone know the answer to this? If we can't supply/point users to the
> VPN client for Solaris these people may be out of luck (i.e. unable to run
> license-served Third Party software).
>
> Thanks,
>
> A.
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> > I'm not aware of VPN availablility for Solaris but am presuming that there
> > will be virtually no non-"Net18" users on Suns who need to run Athena
> > software.
>
> I know someone who is running Solaris Athena from Wellesley. Would you be
> able to find out if Cisco's VPN client is available for Solaris for her to
> use? (She is part of the MIT community.) Additionally, there are people
> running Solaris Athena machines at Harvard, and possibly at other
> locations in the Cambridge area.
>
> - --Jared
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