Cisco vpn client on Linux
Posted: 2011/11/28 Filed under: linux | Tags: cisco, cisco vpnclient, linux, vpn, vpnclient Leave a comment »These are the steps required to instal the Cisco vpn client ver. 4.8.02.0030 on Ubuntu 11.10 (it should work on any kernel above 2.6.38):
1. Download the necessary software:
- Cisco vpn client.
- patch 01. Get details about this patch here.
- patch 02. Get details here.
- optionally patch 03. This is a patch I wrote and it enables dkms for building and installing the cisco_ipsec kernel module.
2. Apply patches:
# tar -xzvf vpnclient-linux-x86_64-4.8.02.0030-k9.tar.gz
# cd vpnclient
# patch -p1 < ../vpnclient-01-a-fseitz.patch
# patch -p1 < ../vpnclient-02-joergensen.patch
# patch -p1 < ../vpnclient-03-dkms.patch
# cd vpnclient
# patch -p1 < ../vpnclient-01-a-fseitz.patch
# patch -p1 < ../vpnclient-02-joergensen.patch
# patch -p1 < ../vpnclient-03-dkms.patch
3. Install:
# ./vpn_install
