cisco vpn experience?

[Julian Elischer]

Maksim Yevmenkin wrote:

> Maksim Yevmenkin wrote:
>
>> Julian Elischer wrote:
>>
>>> Has anyone connected a FreeBSD machine to a "cisco ipsec VPN" as 
>>> exported by various Cisco routers.
>>>
>>> they have special solaris, linux and windows clients..
>>
>>
>> tried to play with it. no luck though. could find where to stick
>> "group password" (or whatever its called). even looked at linux
>> sources at one point. looked like (to me) some shim on top of ipsec.
>> i might be wrong (it was long time ago).
>
>
> just tried google'ing it again and
>
> http://www.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/~massar/vpnc/
>
> came up... have not tried to actually use it, but it compliled fine

yeah I found that.

It's a port/package too..

I'm hoping it will do the trick for me though it seems a shame that we 
have to use a
linux-based userland program when we have ipsec in the kernel.

>
> max