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Re: VPN for Solaris
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex T Prengel)
Wed Jun 29 18:54:11 2005
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Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 18:53:55 -0400
From: Alex T Prengel <alexp@MIT.EDU>
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>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
What the issue is, in case it's unclear from the quotes- my recently
imposed license server restrictions by client IP address to "Net18"
will potentially cut off access to most-licensed served software for
legitimate users whose machines are not in the right IP address set.
So to take this a bit further:
1. I don't know if we're already entitled to use this for free on Suns or not,
given whatever Cisco contracts we have. Does anyone?
2. As Jeff points out, at least Zephyr breaks with it- it would be helpful
to know if most other things work, or if it really would be infeasible..
3. If we are entitled to use it for free, will it just work "out of the box"
or is some amount of reconfiguration/rebuilding needed? Maybe someone who's
worked on the Linux version knows about this?
4. I'm pointing this at release-team, as I think most of these issues,
especially 2. would need to be addressed by you, but if time can't be
spared for this, could anyone else help out? Network? SIPB? SWRT? I'd
like to be able to give the original requestor some kind of
answer... it won't help much to say "it's available from Cisco" if
there isn't a means of getting a functional product to end-users. If
we don't have the resources to deliver it as a supported product, even
"it's unsupported, but this is what you need to do to make it work"
instructions might help users trying to do it on their own, if we
think there's a chance that it would work...
Alex
>> 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.
>> > ------- Forwarded Message
>> >
>> > Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2005 23:24:45 -0400 (EDT)
>> > From: Daniel Jared Dominguez <danjared@MIT.EDU>
>> > To: alexp@MIT.EDU
>> > Subject: Re: [alexp@MIT.EDU: license server "net18" restrictions]
>> >
>> > > 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
>> >
>> > ------- End of Forwarded Message
