[NBLUG/talk] Sebastopol Downtown WiFi

Christopher Wagner waggie at waggie.net
Thu Mar 13 10:19:09 PDT 2008


Thanks Kyle, I'll give that a shot.. I think perhaps I was trying to
make things too complicated before. I appreciate the help. :)

- Chris

Kyle Rankin wrote:
> 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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