Thanks Richard. You were right. I unpacked the VPN.exe file for Windows XP using unzip in a terminal and I used NetworkManager to import the PCF files. Now it's connecting, but it's totally useless for what I need VPN for!
OIT website tells you that after connecting to UMD VPN, you should visit: http://www.helpdesk.umd.edu/cgi-bin/checkip.pl (or http://noc.net.umd.edu/cgi-bin/netmgr/whoami) and make sure you are being given an IP address of the form: 128.8.xxx.xxx When I do this using my browser (Iceweasel 3.0.6 with its user.agent renamed to Firefox) I get the following: IP Resolution Check For 128.8.xxx.xxx The host name is: vpn1-xxx-xxx.umd.edu. IP Resolution is OK vpn1-xxx-xxx.umd.edu. resolves back to 128.8.xxx.xxx Which I suppose means everything is working well. But in reality, when I go here to check my IP address: http://www.whatismyip.com/ I get my usual router IP address. I then tried ifconfig and got the right IP address for tun0 but got my usual IP address for wlan0. As a consequence when I try going on to scientific journals websites to get some papers I'm asked to log in to buy the article... I know I can get these through www.lib.umd.edu without VPN, but I wanted this to work. OIT has some "known issues" http://www.helpdesk.umd.edu/topics/applications/vpn/3835/ Mine is not listed, but perhaps it has to do with some of the ports in my router not being open. Andres Cimmarusti http://terpconnect.umd.edu/~candres/ ---- Original message ---- >Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2009 18:22:08 -0500 >From: Richard Matthew McCutchen <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: [UM-LINUX] vpnc fails to connect to UMD >To: [email protected] > >On Fri, 2009-12-04 at 16:47 -0500, Andres Cimmarusti wrote: >> I set up vpnc (using NetworkManager and with the terminal) a few >> months ago. It was working pretty well. Recently, I was forced to >> change my directory password. After updating my VPN connection details >> I've been trying to connect without any success. I also tried using my >> old directory password to no avail. I'm using vpnc-0.5.3 in Debian >> Lenny >> >> Example of what (now) happens all the time: >> >> # vpnc umd-wireless >> vpnc: no response from target >> >> Contents of my umd-wireless.conf located under /etc/vpnc/ >> >> # UMD-Wireless >> IPSec gateway 128.8.7.227 >> IPSec ID UMD-TunnelAll >[...] > >When I tried the VPN just now, I ran into the same problem. Apparently >those settings are no longer valid. I extracted the current pcf files >from the OIT-provided installer at >http://www.helpdesk.umd.edu/topics/applications/vpn/4052/ and imported >them into NetworkManager, and now the VPN works just fine. I have put a >zip of the pcf files on glue at: > >/afs/glue.umd.edu/home/glue/r/m/rmccutch/pub/vpn/umd-vpn-20091204.zip > >-- >Matt
