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<p>Hi Torsten,<br>
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<p>If I understand correctly, vpnc-connect also asks for a group
name and group password, which EPFL did not provide to me. All I
have is the l2tp server name and a "shared secret". My colleague
can connect without problems on his mac, so I don't understand
what I'm doing wrong.</p>
<p>Cheers</p>
<p>Stan<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 05/03/2017 04:39 PM, Mähne Torsten
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<p class="">Thanks, Torsten!<br class="">
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<p class="">A few years ago, I tried a similar
anyconnect installer script from ETH and it screwed up
other vpn connections I had working, so I wanted to
avoid this, as I now have a working ETH vpn
connection, which I need to keep. As an alternative to
the installer script, the ETH web site gives clear
instructions how to connect to vpn manually through
the network manager from linux, which worked very
well. EPFL only has the installer script and the l2tp
way, so I would like to use l2tp instead of the
installer script if possible. Unfortunately, the
network manager does not seem to have this capability.</p>
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yes, anyconnect was a huge pain already back then. Even
though, they did not advertise it, vpnc-connect continued to
work very well, so that I switched back. Unfortunately, I
don’t have anymore a backup around of my vpnc.conf from that
time.</div>
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<p class="">I need to connect to <span
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vpn at EPFL, using a shared secret. I
haven't found a way to do this from Linux
so far, and most of the discussion threads
I found pointed to strongswan. Do you know
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<div class="">When I was working at EPFL, I personally
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<div class="">However, that might not work anymore
(last used in 2011).</div>
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just out of curiosity..
On 04/20/2017 12:06 PM, Stan Schymanski wrote:
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<pre class="" wrap="">Update: This sounds promising, but not sure if it would work in
Progress: <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://github.com/seriyps/NetworkManager-l2tp/wiki">https://github.com/seriyps/NetworkManager-l2tp/wiki</a>
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<pre class="" wrap="">where are you using this? i always perceived strongswan to be rather
niche, most people use either openvpn or one of the cisco vpns (vpnc,
openconnect). all of these three variants are nicely supported with any
linux system since years.
Regards,
Daniel
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