Re: VPN Access without Cisco Client.

From: Evan Wagner (ewagner@radix.net)
Date: 12/29/02 

From: Evan Wagner <ewagner@radix.net>
Date: 29 Dec 2002 05:39:00 GMT

In comp.security.firewalls Rodrick R. Brown <rrbrown@dcas.nyc.gov> wrote:

Greetings,

The Cisco VPN client software comes in Unix flavors too including:
Apple OS X, Linux, and Solaris. Your client should be able to
provide you with them.

--Evan

> Hello I have recently been contracted to do some work for a client and I
> need access the clients site via VPN. They provided me with a proprietary
> VPN client made by
> cisco the problem here is this product only seems to support Windows. All my
> workstations are Unix based is it possible
> to configure my workstation to talk to there Cisco Pix 525 firewall via
> standard IPSEC/VPN implementations w/o using this Cisco VPN client.

> My current workstations are Freebsd, Solaris, & OpenBSD.

> - RB

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