[plug] vpn to edith cowan uni

[Phillip Bennett]

-----Original Message-----
From: plug-bounces at plug.org.au [mailto:plug-bounces at plug.org.au] On Behalf
Of Daniel Pearson (Flashware Solutions)
Sent: 16 February 2007 07:17
To: plug at plug.org.au
Subject: Re: [plug] vpn to edith cowan uni

Tomasz Grzegurzko wrote:
> On 2/16/07, *Gavin Chester* <sales at ecosolutions.com.au 
> <mailto:sales at ecosolutions.com.au>> wrote:
>
>     On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 10:08 +0900, Tomasz Grzegurzko wrote:
>     > On 2/16/07, Gavin Chester <sales at ecosolutions.com.au
>     <mailto:sales at ecosolutions.com.au>> wrote:
>
>     -snip-
>
>     >          So, my question is, do any current or recent-past ECU
>     >         students know if that will be an option for me now that
>     I'm an
>     >         exclusively linux household?  Do I get a package from IT at
>     >         ECU, like
>     >         before, or do I use gpl vpn solutions on my system?  (I
>     don't
>     >         have any
>     >         experience with vpn, ssh, etc)
>
>     >         _______________________________________________
>     > If they're using M$ servers for their VPN, your solution lies in
>     > "pptp" and it's associated GUI if you like <
>     > http://pptpclient.sourceforge.net/>. I've used this to get to M$ VPN
>     > servers with no trouble at all; especially since newer kernels
>     include
>     > by default the authentication module needed (a bit like compression
>     > modules already being there too..).
>     >
>     > This would be equivalent to using the "standard" dial up VPN
>     mechanism
>     > in Window$ clients, which is probably what they got your '98 box
>     > doing.
>     >
>     > Tomasz
>
>     Thanks, Tomasz.  I'll check that out and see from ECU's IT people what
>     parameters are needed to connect to their servers.
>
>     Gavin
>
>
> More than likely: domain name, username, password and external IP to 
> connect to is all you'll need.
>
>YMMV, but at Curtin we have Cisco VPN stuff.. so I wouldn't be suprised if
ECU was similar?
>
>Cheers,
>Dan.
>

I was there a few years ago and the last thing I remember about their VPN
was that they were using something called 'Extranet'.  I'm fairly sure they
had a linux client for it, but they could have changed the system by now...

Phil.