Cisco VPN connection

[lollysticky]

Hi,

just wanted to ask a small question... I've set up a VPN connection to my university and i installed and configured everything ok, cause I can connect without any problems...

Now that I'm connected I want my browser to run through the VPN tunnel created by the connection so i can access certain sites that are else inaccessible, but how do i force my browser (I'm using firefox atm) to do that?

When I'm on MAC of Windows OS, as soon as i connect with a VPN, all connection run through them. Fedora seems to ignore the VPN connection and just continues to use my home-network to connect to the internet.

So the basic question is: how do i use the VPN connection
I hope I explained it in a way you guys can understand. Thanks anyways for reading!


-lollysticky-

edit: i use FC10, kernel 2.6.27.21-170.2.56.fc10.i686, fully updated system

I believe you should, open firefox and click on:
edit-preferences
advance tab
network tab
settings
choose auto detect for this network

That should do it

Cheers

[lollysticky]

Originally Posted by kyryder

I believe you should, open firefox and click on:
edit-preferences
advance tab
network tab
settings
choose auto detect for this network

That should do it

Cheers

tried it.. doesn't work

here's how i do it..
First, offcourse I connect to my home network (wifi).. everything okee, i can acces Internet
Now, i activate the VPN... type in my account pass... everything okee again, in the menu bar a small keylock-icon appears over the wifi netwerk icon, stating that the VPN connection is active (it says so when i hoover over the icon and it displays "VPN connection 'VPNUGent' active"

but still... everything runs through my normal wifi connection

[stevea]

You'll need to setup route tables for the VPN'ed network.
You could do it manually.
If there is a dhcp service on the VPN you may be able to use:
dhclient IFNAME
where IFNAME is the vpn interface name.

As root the result of these commands will be a start.
su -
ip addr
ip route



If you feel the need, you can fake(edit) the public IP addresses. Not the ones starting with 192.168.x.x, 172.x.x.x ,10.x.x.x 127.x.x.x.
It's not much of a security issue either way IMO.

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Another thought .... you can use NetworkMananger(NM) to manage a vpn too.
Right click the "signal strength" icon in the upper panel.

"edit connections" "vpn" tab, select "add".
THe rest should be obvious.
I use vpnc "manually" but I expect that NM will try to create a dhclient for you automagically.

[lollysticky]

Yeah i tried NetworkManager but then i run into the troubles described above; i can connect to the VPN but the connection still runs through the wifi network...


i fixed the problem by contacting the VPN owners who wrote a script to solve the problem... seems that i just needed to manually reroute the 'route' which the connection follows.

thanks tho :P