GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 684480
Add support for Juniper Secure Access?
Last modified: 2020-11-12 14:26:22 UTC
Is it possible to get support for Juniper's Secure Access VPN solution in vpnc? There is allready a script called MSJNC on Github[1] that works, but the best thing would be if it was integrated in NM. [1]: https://raw.github.com/madscientist/msjnc/master/msjnc
According to http://www.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/~massar/vpnc/ cmd-line vpnc client supports Juniper/Netscreen. So I suppose NM vpnc plugin would as well. You can choose vendor in Advanced dialog of VPN setting in nm-connection-editor. There is a dropdown with "Cisco (default)" and "Netscreen". However, I haven't tested as I don't have any Juniper server available.
Yes, it supports some other Juniper VPN solution, but not the Secure Access. I've tried switching to "Netscreen" using nm-connection-editor with the network-manager-vpnc installed and set up. There's some more from the author of the msjnc-app here: http://mad-scientist.net/juniper.html
Hmm, so when the server doesn't work with vpnc it would require to create a new plugin for this VPN type. It appears there's "ncsvc" command-line client, but closed source, 32bit app only. Not nice. Some links for reference: http://alaya.net/tech/?p=6228 http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=KB16188&actp=RSS
See bug #736074: there is al alternative now
I think this will be eventually fixed with bug 746664. Depending on that bug.
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