Thanks for that Bryan, but I sadly I can't control the remote endpoint and
from what I know Any Connect is a different type of VPN, so I can't use
openconnect to connect to this VPN.

Isn't there any way to get VPNC to work on a recent OpenBSD?


On Jan 5, 2011, at 10:53 PM, Bryan wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 15:20, Christian Kildau <m...@chrisk.de> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm having a hard time getting vpnc (0.5.3) from packages to work on 4.8.
>> I have it running on Mac OS X (and Linux also), but it just doesn't
work(tm)
>> on OpenBSD.
>>
>
> Oh good, I thought I was the only one.
>
>> Everything get's set up properly (in my eyes). The tun device is created,
the
>> IP Address is assigned, the routes are set. But it looks like vpnc just
>> doesn't forward anything.
>>
>> net.inet.esp.enable and net.inet.ah.enable are set to 0, as mentioned by
the
>> vpnc installation script.
>>
>> # ping sipgate.de
>> PING sipgate.de (217.10.79.9): 56 data bytes
>> ping: sendto: No buffer space available
>> ping: wrote sipgate.de 64 chars, ret=-1
>>
>> Has anyone got this working on a recent OpenBSD?
>>
>
> I had to give up and use openconnect.  It uses a vpnc script to create
> the SSL tunnel I use.  I submitted an update when the WANTLIB changes
> came in, but I didn't see any inclusion to -current...
>
> Here is the latest version of openconnect, it works to connect to my
> Cisco AnyClient VPN at work. I've tested it on i386 and amd64
>
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
> #more DESCR
> OpenConnect is a client for Cisco's AnyConnect SSL VPN, which is
> supported by the ASA5500 Series, by IOS 12.4(9)T or later on Cisco
> SR500, 870, 880, 1800, 2800, 3800, 7200 Series and Cisco 7301 Routers,
> and probably others.
>
> OpenConnect is released under the GNU Lesser Public License, version
> 2.1.
>
> Like vpnc, OpenConnect is not officially supported by, or associated in
> any way with, Cisco Systems. It just happens to interoperate with their
> equipment.
>
> Development of OpenConnect was started after a trial of their "official"
> client under Linux found it to have many deficiencies:
>
>      * Inability to use SSL certificates from a TPM, or even use
>      a passphrase.
>      * Lack of support for Linux platforms other than i386.
>      * Lack of integration with NetworkManager on the Linux desktop.
>      * Lack of proper (RPM/DEB) packaging for Linux distributions.
>      * "Stealth" use of libraries with dlopen(), even using the
>      development-only symlinks such as libz.so - making it hard to
>      properly discover the dependencies which proper packaging would
>      have expressed
>      * Tempfile races allowing unprivileged users to trick it into
>      overwriting arbitrary files, as root.
>      * Unable to run as an unprivileged user, which would have
>      reduced severity of the above bug.
>      * Inability to audit the source code for further such "Security
>      101" bugs.
>
> Naturally, OpenConnect addresses all of the above issues, and more.
>
>
> It's been tested on i386 and amd64.  I updated it to work with the new
> WANTLIB changes.  This adds to Jiri's earlier work.  I just added the
> WANTLIB changes.  He's short on bandwidth at the moment, so I made the
> changes.
>
> [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/x-gzip which had a
name of openconnect.tar.gz]

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