My little exercise tonight was attempt to get a freeswan client to connect to my RVS4000. I couldn’t do it, at least not with my patience level. I did, however, manager to get the Linksys QuickVPN software to work under wine without any trouble.
- Install wine
- Download the latest version of QuickVPN from LinksysInfo
- Run the QuickVPN installer (e.g. wine VPN_Client_xxyy.exe)
- Login to your router,
- Setup a VPN user for yourself
- Generate a new certficate
- Export the client certificate to your desktop
- Move the client certificate (in the screenshot you’ll see this as RVS4000_Client.pem) to “~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Linksys/Linksys VPN Client”
- Fire up the client and put in your login and connection details.
- Enjoy!
November 29th, 2007 at 22:18
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December 4th, 2007 at 12:06
After finding this article and reading how simple it is, I decided to try for myself. I downloaded QuickVPN 1.1.0, got my network admin to create an account for me and had them create and forward a certificate.
I then installed QuickVPN (via wine) to my laptop running Kubuntu Gutsy. QuickVPn installs without a hitch. When I use it to connect to the office VPN it also appears to work.
I say appear because both QuickVPN running on the laptop and the logs on the VPN report that I have established a connection. HOWEVER! What do I do from here? When I run ifconfig I can clearly see that I still have the local ip address assigned by my intranet and do not see any virtual devices that might be assigned the new address that QuickVPN should have. I can’t ping any hosts that I should be able to reach now that the VPN is established. Essentially I haven’t any real access.
Again, both QuickVPN and the router show me as connected, so I’m satisfied that I have a connection, I just don’t seem to have anyway to use it.
Any help in this matter would be greatly appreciated!
CJ