[wellylug] What package do I use to link into another network?

[Rob Giltrap]

Colin & Josephine Lewis wrote:

>My wife is thinking of asking permission for external access into her works 
>network, using our home PC, now running Mdk 10.0.  I know there are MS 
>packages that provide such links, but what is available for Linux, and how 
>easy are they to set up?
>
>Colin Lewis
>  
>
Colin,

It depends on what they use to provide the access. A very common 
solution is Cisco VPN which is easily installed onto a linux system. 
However having said that Mandrake 10.0 uses the 2.6.x kernel which 
currently has a problem with the Cisco VPN client, this has been 
resolved by Cisco but the patch is not yet readily available.

It is very easy to set up the Cisco vpn 3000 client. Three simple steps ...

1) Ensure you have the kernel source headers and devl packages installed
2) Run the install script
3) Reboot and run the vpn start command

If your wife can find out what the "external access" type is I'm sure 
someone on this list will have a solution.