Tuesday, August 5, 2008

Re: [BLUG] IU VPN connection on Linux

initech wrote:
> Has anyone gotten the IU or IUPUI VPN connection to work on Linux? I
> am running Xubuntu on an older laptop and my wife is taking it to IUPUI
> next week for some classes. She needs to connect to the IUPUI VPN over
> wireless while there. My wireless works fine and we can connect to the
> IUPUI VPN on my XP box using the downloaded VPN connector from IUWare
> Online and her credentials. I've been using the information from
> [1]http://www.ussg.iu.edu/support/documentation#iuvpn but can't seem to
> get a connection.
>
>
> If this works, she'll willingly switch the whole house over to Linux
> (though we may keep a dual-booted XP machine around just in case). I'd
> appreciate any help on this matter so I can ditch XP as a daily OS in
> the house and get her onboard with Linux.

As someone else mentioned, the VPN scripts from IUWare should work for
most Linux distributions. Also, the wireless setup at IUB and IUPUI
recently changed and VPN is only needed for specific situations that
don't apply to most faculty/staff/students.
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