I managed to get vpnc to work with Nortel Contivity VPN server through my company's wireless lan on my N810.

This is what I did:

1. Install the vpnc package by Michael Arndt from maemo.org.

2. Make a couple of changes related to xauth type to the merged vpnc source code published by Volodymyr Buell at http://www.gossamer-threads.com/list...2281?page=last
since my company does not use SecureId for Xauth .

3. Compile the source code under maemo scratchbox sdk environment. Replace the vpnc binary under /usr/sbin on my n810 with the one I compiled.

4. Edit a default.conf file with VPN server, group name/password, user name/password and put the file under /etc/vpnc on my n810.

Then just run "vpnc" in xterm after "sudo gainroot". It works great. No more complaint to the tablet.

Wow! That's amazing, especially given how poor Nortel's support is for Linux.

Is your binary available, or have the changes been merged back into the distribution? I'd really like to get a copy of this.

Thanks!

Attached is my binary compressed using gzip.

thank you!

Since my company does use SecureID with our Nortel Contivity VPN, will this vpnc binary work for me, or is it in the default.conf that I need to add Xauth parameters back to handle the SecureID token?

Any idea?

Thanks,

Vince.

Since my company has s Nortel VPN server, I took this binary and setup a conf file but I keep getting the error "vpnc: response was invalid [1]: (ISAKMP_N_INVALID_EXCHANGE_TYPE)(7)"

Does anybody know what the issue is?

I think I have all the necessary parameters, although we are using a SecureID token, and I've been entering the password as PIN+Token, and I always have this error. It that how it's supposed to work?

My config file:

IPSec gateway <server IP address>
IPSec ID <ID given by my IT>
IPSec secret <Group pwd given by my IT>
Xauth username <my username>
Xauth password <PIN+Token>
vendor nortel

Thanks,

Vince.

Can the fact that I can't ping my VPN server be the reason for this error "vpnc: response was invalid [1]: (ISAKMP_N_INVALID_EXCHANGE_TYPE)(7)"?

It's not a problem when using the Nortel Contivity Client, but figured I'd ask.

Vince