VPN in Jaguar:
My company is fianlly letting me set up a VPN for my Mac OS 9 and OS X users. Whoot! I am testing now...
My corporate IT guy sent me the OS 9 software (Nortel Netlock) and my RSA Tokens (cool high tech gadgets that display a code number randomly).
I didn't receive any OS X software. I am wondering if Jag will let me access the VPN without 3rd party configs. If not, what can I use? I dont seen OS X stuff on the Nortel site.
Any ideas?
How do the tokesn work? I am puzzeled on who the VPN server and the token can synch code numbers in real time...
My corporate IT guy sent me the OS 9 software (Nortel Netlock) and my RSA Tokens (cool high tech gadgets that display a code number randomly).
I didn't receive any OS X software. I am wondering if Jag will let me access the VPN without 3rd party configs. If not, what can I use? I dont seen OS X stuff on the Nortel site.
Any ideas?
How do the tokesn work? I am puzzeled on who the VPN server and the token can synch code numbers in real time...
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Look through the Networking panel (in Jag) or the help center ... it should work.
I have just successfully installed a VPN client (cisco) on my Mac in 10.2. The VPNclient v3.6 is the only one that seemed to work (v3.5 didn't want to play - issues with kextload vs kmodload). I also got a nice little GUI front end called VPNConnect 1.0, which makes things a lot easier (I am one of those who gets a little scared when you have to log into the terminal and install as root).
However, everything works very nicely.
Try Cisco VPNclient 3.6.
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cd /vpnclient*
./vpnconnect connect micro <--(or whatever your profile name is)
name it vpnclient.command
go into the terminal and chmod the file using these arguments:
chmod u=rwx,go=rx /path/to/file/vpnclient.command
and voila! You have a file you can double click and it will open Terminal and enter in all the info for you that you provided in your profile (except a certificate password ).
<strong>Instead of using VPNConnect I started using a terminal command script. Basicall made a text edit file with this text:
cd /vpnclient*
./vpnconnect connect micro <--(or whatever your profile name is)
name it vpnclient.command
go into the terminal and chmod the file using these arguments:
chmod u=rwx,go=rx /path/to/file/vpnclient.command
and voila! You have a file you can double click and it will open Terminal and enter in all the info for you that you provided in your profile (except a certificate password ).</strong><hr></blockquote>
Do I really want that asterik * in there?
Where (dir) did you have your command in?
I'm still confused on how to connect because I have a RSA (keychain dongle) device with a LED numerical display that has a random number on it. that number must be entered at some point in order to authenticate and log on to my corporate WAN. I am assumming that I need special software from Nortel/Netlock that will prompt me for that random number ans sync the two numbers ...
can anybody post a link to the cisco address for 3000 v3.6 for mac?
thnx
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Do I really want that asterik * in there?
Where (dir) did you have your command in?
I'm still confused on how to connect because I have a RSA (keychain dongle) device with a LED numerical display that has a random number on it. that number must be entered at some point in order to authenticate and log on to my corporate WAN. I am assumming that I need special software from Nortel/Netlock that will prompt me for that random number ans sync the two numbers ...</strong><hr></blockquote>
The asterisk is a wild card. The folder may be vpnclient36 or vpnclient361 depending on the version. Actually I just do vpn*. And my directions were for the Cisco version of vpn if you are vpning into a Cisco box. For Nortel you may need to find their software or use Internet Connect app in the Applications folder. Open the app and choose from the File menu 'New VPN Connection Window'.
That is very quick and simple.
FWIW it seems to work fine in OS 9.
<a href="http://www.purdue.edu/itap/airlink/software/vpnclient-darwin-3.6.1.Rel-k9.tar.gz" target="_blank">http://www.purdue.edu/itap/airlink/software/vpnclient-darwin-3.6.1.Rel-k9.tar.gz</a>
There's no GUI for it right now that I'm aware of.