let me at least narrow down the problem space: - in my office when I run VPN from a wired line, it works fine, possibly because i don't see the IP changed on me as it is normally!
- in my office when I run VPN from the UMD wireless, it hangs. Got a different IP, so i guess it makes sense. - peter On [Mon Feb 18 14:34], Peter Teuben wrote: > on my Fedora Core 7 (my daily linux box) there is a vpn installed, > i noted the following packages: > > NetworkManager-vpnc-0.6.4-3.fc7 > vpnc-0.4.0-2.fc7 > openvpn-2.1-0.19.rc4.fc7 > NetworkManager-openvpn-0.3.2-7.fc6 > > and the networking applet is easy to configure. The vpn/cicso passwords > are online even (some email on this on the mailing list a while back) > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg01716.html > and I get it to work just fine. > > But with one BIG exception: any shell (xterm) into our campus machines > results into a hung xterm whenever there appears to be too much output. > E.g. > ls | wc > or > ls | head > works, > but commands like ls, mutt, w, ps , they all fail. Have to close (~.) the > connection and start over. Basicallly useless. Anybody have a clue what's > going > on here. > Other clients fare better? > Could of course also be something on my own, or the astr.dept. end. Doesn't > have > to be vpn. Or could verizon mess it up.. That's easy to find out, try vpn > from > campus itself. > > peter
