[NBLUG/talk] Sebastopol Downtown WiFi

[Kyle Rankin]

On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 02:11:07AM -0700, Christopher Wagner wrote:
> I must admit, I'm curious as to what the cons would be for having Sonic
> set-up downtown WiFi?  Yes, the city is tacitly "approving" of Sonic.net
> (a local business).  Are they the tinfoil hat types?  What's their gripe?
>
> Also on a related note, I've never been able to get a functional set-up
> going so that I, as a paying Sonic.net user, have unrestricted
> functionality on the net.  The Cisco VPN client is a bear to set-up, or
> at least my attempts so far have encountered this.  I run Ubuntu 7.10.
> To be far, I haven't tried any time recently, but any general thoughts
> or suggestions on that topic?
>
> - Chris
>

I suppose this is a bit of a thread hijack, but I've had good success with
vpnc to connect to sonic's VPN (using it right now in fact). I also use
Ubuntu 7.10 and the package is called simply "vpnc".

Once you install the package, here is the config you can put in
/etc/vpnc/default (or in my case I called it "sonic" as I have multiple
VPNs I need to connect to).

    IPSec gateway 208.201.249.242
    IPSec ID Standard VPN
    IPSec secret standard
    Xauth username yoursonicusername
    Xauth password yourpassword

Note that the password line is optional, if you don't feel comfortable
putting your password in a plaintext file you can remove that line and vpnc
will prompt you for one. Once the file is in place as root run:

    vpnc-connect

or if you are like me and name the config file /etc/vpnc/sonic, you'd type:

    vpnc-connect sonic

Hope this helps,

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