Re: [leaf-user] need to connect to corp sidewinder firewall

2003-02-05 Thread Mike Noyes
On Mon, 2003-02-03 at 06:47, Don Seiler wrote: > I'm getting formatting errors with your emails. Pine says "Formatting > error: Non-hexadecimal character in QP encoding". So the second part of > your response was cut off. Everyone, This is a known problem, and is being worked on by the SourceF

Re: [leaf-user] need to connect to corp sidewinder firewall

2003-02-03 Thread Don Seiler
I'm getting formatting errors with your emails. Pine says "Formatting error: Non-hexadecimal character in QP encoding". So the second part of your response was cut off. Don. On Mon, 3 Feb 2003, Lynn Avants wrote: > On Monday 03 February 2003 08:09 am, Don Seiler wrote: > > I read somewhere t

Re: [leaf-user] need to connect to corp sidewinder firewall

2003-02-03 Thread Lynn Avants
On Monday 03 February 2003 08:09 am, Don Seiler wrote: > I read somewhere that there is a timeout issue with with rp-pppoe or NAT, > where it tries ti re-generate something ever 10 minutes or so. Sorry I > don't have specifics and this all might sound a little crazy. Not with NAT. Possibly your I

Re: [leaf-user] need to connect to corp sidewinder firewall

2003-02-03 Thread Don Seiler
I read somewhere that there is a timeout issue with with rp-pppoe or NAT, where it tries ti re-generate something ever 10 minutes or so. Sorry I don't have specifics and this all might sound a little crazy. The fact of the matter is I _can_ connect to their VPN, I just get disconnected frequen

Re: [leaf-user] need to connect to corp sidewinder firewall

2003-02-03 Thread Lynn Avants
On Monday 03 February 2003 08:00 am, Don Seiler wrote: > Should the corp admin's change anything on the firewall to allow for my > pass-through connection? > > I _am_ doing NAT on my end also. I read on that ipsec.txt that this > breaks one of the protocols. What alternatives do I have? Not if t

Re: [leaf-user] need to connect to corp sidewinder firewall

2003-02-03 Thread Don Seiler
Should the corp admin's change anything on the firewall to allow for my pass-through connection? I _am_ doing NAT on my end also. I read on that ipsec.txt that this breaks one of the protocols. What alternatives do I have? Don. On Mon, 3 Feb 2003, Lynn Avants wrote: > On Monday 03 February

Re: [leaf-user] need to connect to corp sidewinder firewall

2003-02-03 Thread Lynn Avants
On Monday 03 February 2003 01:00 am, Don Seiler wrote: > That sounds pretty much like what I'm doing now with iptables. Only I'm > assuming in this situation I'd be doing the VPN authentication on the > router instead of from the desktop box? If not then, as I said, I'm > already doing this, and

Re: [leaf-user] need to connect to corp sidewinder firewall

2003-02-02 Thread Don Seiler
That sounds pretty much like what I'm doing now with iptables. Only I'm assuming in this situation I'd be doing the VPN authentication on the router instead of from the desktop box? If not then, as I said, I'm already doing this, and not successfully. Thanks, Don. On Sun, 2 Feb 2003, Lynn Av

Re: [leaf-user] need to connect to corp sidewinder firewall

2003-02-02 Thread Lynn Avants
On Friday 31 January 2003 04:01 pm, Don Seiler wrote: > hullo. > > I'm in need of a linux-based vpn client to connect to my employer's Secure > Computing Sidewinder firewall. We currently have windows software, but I > have a windows workstation behind a linux router and I believe that there > is

[leaf-user] need to connect to corp sidewinder firewall

2003-01-31 Thread Don Seiler
hullo. I'm in need of a linux-based vpn client to connect to my employer's Secure Computing Sidewinder firewall. We currently have windows software, but I have a windows workstation behind a linux router and I believe that there is something in linux NAT that is causing the VPN to disconnect ever