[nmglug] ftp over vpn,

Ed Brown ebrown at lanl.gov
Thu Jul 7 11:00:44 PDT 2005


Not sure what you mean by 'route display'...   Can you ping the ftp
server ip address?  Can you ping the vpn gateway address?  What does
'ifconfig' show?


On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 11:51, Andres Paglayan wrote:
> Im sure it reads the conf file, if I take the password off it will prompt,
> but after running vpnc-connect there is no change at all in the route 
> display,
> will check again with them what I should enter in the .conf file,
> Thank you very much for your feed-back
> 
> 
> Ed Brown wrote:
> 
> >Andres,
> >
> >The vpnc-connect script should handle setting up the routing info for
> >you, once your configuration file is correct.  (Take a look at the last
> >few lines of vpnc-connect, there are probably several 'route' commands.)
> >
> >After running vpnc-connect, just try this to see if you are really
> >connected:
> >ping ip.of.ftp.server
> >
> >I wonder if the 'default.conf' file is being consulted: that might just
> >be a starting point conf file.  You might try renaming your edited
> >version of 'default.conf' to 'vpnc.conf'.  At least that's what the
> >config file was called when I was trying out vpnc.
> >
> >-Ed   
> >
> >On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 10:47, Andres Paglayan wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>well, you might hit the nail,
> >>I did configure /etc/vpnc/default.conf according to the settings I got 
> >>from them,
> >>I run vpnc-connect script and it shows running in the background.
> >>I tried the
> >>route add ftp.server.ip ws the.vpn.ip
> >>and it says
> >>SIOCADDRT: Network is unreachable
> >>so I must be missing somethin in the use of vpnc
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >
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