Setting up a split VPN client on Linux

[Joseph Sinclair]

Thanks Craig.  That was exactly what I needed.

One note for anyone else needing this:
The instructions on the site are very clear, except for one slight issue.
Some Windows VPN's have some problems with default authentication.
If you connect with verbose options and get an error "unknown authentication type 13" that prevents you from connecting, you have to put an extra parameter in the peer file for that tunnel  "refuse-eap".
The instructions neglect this parameter, and searching the website results in lots of hits where people with the problem are not helped.  I finally found the answer on another site after a google search.

Once I got past that little issue (and realized I have to run all of the initialization commands by hand as root or under sudo), I got connected and can now perform some of the constant maintenance chores their servers require (isn't windows grand?) from the pleasant environs of my Linux workstation.

==Joseph++

Craig White wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 23:15 -0700, Joseph Sinclair wrote:
> 
>>Here's a question for the Linux networking experts out there:
>>I have to connect to my work datacenter from time to time from home.
>>I'd REALLY prefer to make this connection from my Linux machine, but they use Windows for their VPN server (I know, horrible, I'm trying to get them to switch to something worthwhile, but it will take a while), so I have to set up the VPN without a pre-built client (like a Cisco PIX would have).
>>What I'd like to know is if anyone out there knows how to set Linux up to connect a VPN link to a Windows VPN server, preferably in split VPN mode (where I can still access websites through my normal connection while accessing the datacenter servers via the VPN).
> 
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> http://pptpclient.sourceforge.net/
> 
> Will this do what you need?
> 
> Craig