[plug] vpn to edith cowan uni

William Kenworthy billk at iinet.net.au
Fri Feb 16 20:39:10 WST 2007


So has Murdoch ... horrible

BillK


On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 16:16 +0900, Daniel Pearson (Flashware Solutions)
wrote:
> 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.
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