[lopsa-discuss] hardware VPN devices for laptops?

[unix fan]

--- Steve Armijo <armijo at subgeni.us> wrote:
[snip]
> I use the Cisco VPN client for work ( under Linux )
> and find it to be very 
> stable.  Others around me use it and have a terrible
> time.  In the past after 
> lots of grumbling and waving of the apropriate dead
> chickens I have gotten 
> FreeS/WAN ( www.freeswan.org ) to begrudge me a
> connection.  Talking with our 
> IS dept. the general consensus is that the Cisco
> client is somewhat flakey 
> but mostly works for Windows and occasionally works
> for Linux.
FWIW, the Cisco VPN client we use works pretty well
for Windows, Linux and MacOSX. Interestingly, the
non-Windows version are one rev ahead of the Windows
client.

Full Disclosure: It is true that when the VPN server
software gets upgraded, it almost always requires the
client software to get upgraded soon thereafter.
Especially for MacOSX clients. But this hasn't been a
big deal when enough notice was given. IIRC, we have
upgraded about once a year. 


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