[5184] in Release_7.7_team
Re: VPN for Solaris
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeffrey I. Schiller)
Wed Jun 29 19:02:26 2005
From: "Jeffrey I. Schiller" <jis@MIT.EDU>
To: Alex T Prengel <alexp@mit.edu>
Cc: release-team@mit.edu, ops@mit.edu, Jonathan Reed <jdreed@mit.edu>
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Of course this begs the obvious question. Why are we "imposing" these
restrictions in the first place (presumably we've been running fine for
years [if not decades] without them)?
-Jeff
On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 18:53, Alex T Prengel wrote:
> >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
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