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<p class="">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
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Indeed, the configuration details around the shared password were always needed and could be obtained from the password-protected Intranet pages of EPFL. The link I send you also mentions openconnect to be compatible with their Cisco Anyconnect VPN servers,
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<div>There’s also a GUI <<a href="https://openconnect.github.io/openconnect-gui/" class="">https://openconnect.github.io/openconnect-gui/</a>>.</div>
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Hello Stan,
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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 style="font-size:11.0pt" class="">a l2tp 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 a better way?</span></p>
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Did you read the information provided by EPFL?</div>
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<div class="">When I was working at EPFL, I personally used vpnc as described in <<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://flashinformatique.epfl.ch/IMG/pdf/5-4-page3.pdf" class="">http://flashinformatique.epfl.ch/IMG/pdf/5-4-page3.pdf</a>></div>
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<div class="">However, that might not work anymore (last used in 2011).</div>
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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.
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Daniel
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