VPN Questions July 2014

[VPN Questions]

I saw the posts from late last year talking about the VPN support, and set up the Cisco VPN client 5 which was linked off the Wiki.

This seems to be an old version, with support ending later this month. http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/se ... model.html

Is there an updated version of their VPN client that we can use?

What is the official Sonic.net recommendation for VPN clients?

I realize a basic one is built into most Operating Systems nowadays.

[timdoug]

I'm not sure what platform you're interested in, but I've had success on Linux and Mac OS X with the vpnc client (https://www.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/~massar/vpnc/) and the "Enhanced VPN" configuration (i.e., cert-backed).

Grab the rootcert from one of the official Sonic.net VPN tarballs (I used http://www.sonic.net/support/vpn/vpncli ... -k9.tar.gz), put it somewhere on your filesystem, and use the following config (changing the path, username, and password as appropriate):

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IPSec gateway ipsec.vpn.sonic.net
IPSec ID Enhanced VPN
IPSec secret enhanced
IKE Authmode hybrid
CA-File /path/to/rootcert
Xauth username your_sonic.net_username
Xauth password your_sonic.net_password
Debug 1
No Detach
Local Port 0

[Guest]

I would also like to see an updated VPN client linked.

I will be using Windows.

[dkenglish7]

Anyone out there know how to set up the native Win7 or Win8 clients to work? I've read here that it is "difficult" but not what worked - would just as soon not have to install extra software. Thanks in advance...