On Tuesday 19 May 2009, Michael Higgins wrote: > On Tue, 19 May 2009 13:57:21 -0500 > > Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Based on a brief googling I didn't see anyone who has a working > > connection to a Checkpoint VPN. > > Thanks, Paul. I've already the "solution", as I'm not so much trying to get > something accomplished (access machines "inside" which I can do just fine > with SSH tunnel), as to figure out why we have these various, related, open > source software packages available but no basic client-to-corporate > "real-world" implementations specifically outlined for the Gentoo community > -- that I can find. :( > > Just a definitive answer to "which Gentoo packages and USE flags to I need > to emerge so to do this"? .. would be a HUGE help (as weeks later I *still* > don't know for sure). And if 60%+ of the folks following it got lucky with > cut-n-paste from a how-to, then... great! > > Say if all the related items were configured, tested and ultimately failed, > if documented publicly it'd at the least serve as a good template for > anyone else trying to troubleshoot a VPN connection when using Gentoo on a > client machine. > > Or, should I instead, just go outside and play? I thought someone else here > had hoped to make something like this work... ;-)
I very much share your frustration. On and off (OK, mostly off) I have been trying to get a VPN connection to my router going, and have tried vnpc, kvpn and racoon all of which failed. Meanwhile, a friend tried the shrew VPN client and succeeded after a couple of hours of tweaking his Vista box! Arrrgh! I assume that I have all the right components installed (judging from the wiki pages) but I am not sure about my configuration. Unlike your set up which seems to be almost there, mine won't even complete stage 1 handshake. Very, very, very frustrating ... Sorry that I can't be of much help with this. :( -- Regards, Mick
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