- UCLA M.S. Computer Science
- Android Developer
- Freelance IT
or, thoughts from a random graduate student
I used the following to get set up in Ubuntu. Connecting to IPSEC VPN requires installing network-manager-vpnc-gnome, which will pull in the required packages. Let’s do that by running sudo apt-get install network-manager-vpnc-gnome Next we need the settings, which can be pulled from the PCF file, or the PDF on the BOL website. (Requires login) NetworkManager requires the following:
Gateway: vpn.ucla.edu Group name: <group> User password: <your BOL user password> Group password: <decrypted group password> User name: <your BOL user name> Domain: blank Encryption: Secure NAT Traversal: Cisco UDP IKE DH Group: DH Group 2
I used the pcf2vpnc program to obtain the relevant group info from the PCF. The pcf2vpnc program should have been installed by the vpnc package, and can be found on Ubuntu at:
/usr/share/vpnc/pcf2vpnc
Lastly it’s important to allow IPSEC passthrough on your router should that not already be enabled.
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