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Re: VPN for Solaris
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Wed Jun 29 17:32:43 2005
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From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
To: "Jeffrey I. Schiller" <jis@MIT.EDU>
cc: Alex T Prengel <alexp@MIT.EDU>, ops@MIT.EDU, release-team@MIT.EDU
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 28 Jun 2005 11:37:47 EDT."
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Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 17:32:30 -0400
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I've used it with linux-athena 9.2. As you note, zephyr has problems.
I also had some problems with AFS timing out, but at the time I was
behind a NAT and was having those very same problems wihtout the VPN.
I was, in fact, hoping the VPN would solve them, but it didn't. I
don't know enough about the VPN's network protocol to know if it was
just getting betten by the NAT (timeouts on UDP mappings were too low)
or had its own problems here. Other than that I don't recall having
any problems.
Jeff, is your zephyr patch clean enough that it will work bot with ant
without the VPN? If so, would you mind passing it along?
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/sw/secursw/ps2308/ suggests that a
Solaris VPN client exists, but I don't have any information about it.
Jonathon
> 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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