Re: [Madwifi-users] Cisco VPN and madwifi (second post)
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From: Fedor B. <fe...@ms...> - 2004-06-08 15:44:56
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Stephen Walton wrote: > I've been unable to get MadWiFi working with Cisco's VPN client for > Linux. The same machine and network card, booted under XP, works with > Cisco's VPN for XP. Any ideas? Anyone want the output of 'strace' :-) > from a failed connection? The answer is simple -- that brain dead Cisco's module takes over only interfaces with names it recognises (eth, wlan, ppp)... It can be easily cured by the attached patch for Cisco VPN (this is for CiscoVPN version 2.6.5, but for other versions a similar patch should work). PS. Try using the free vpn client, if you can. I think it is really a better solution. Look at http://www.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/~massar/vpnc/ Fedor Bezrukov diff -ru vpnclient/interceptor.c vpnclient.2.6.5/interceptor.c --- vpnclient/interceptor.c 2003-10-30 02:27:34.000000000 +0100 +++ vpnclient.2.6.5/interceptor.c 2004-04-27 22:04:08.000000000 +0200 @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ *************************************************************************** * * File: interceptor.c -* Date: 04/10/2001 +* Date: 04/10/2001 modified to support 'ath' interface (nov. 2003) * *************************************************************************** * This module implements the linux driver. @@ -508,6 +517,11 @@ { rc = 1; } + else if (!strncmp(dev->name, "ath", 3) + && (dev->name[3] >= '0' && dev->name[3] <= '9')) + { + rc = 1; + } else if (!strncmp(dev->name, "ppp", 3) && (dev->name[3] >= '0' && dev->name[3] <= '9')) { |