Novell 5 and Cisco VPN

[rlewisii]

Does any one have experience with connecting a remote Cisco VPN client to a Novell 5 network? I have several varaibles that I can not get consistantly working. The first was to get a NW5 server talking to the internet. That allowed me to browse to the network from network neiborhood but only in bindery mode. The worst is either my client32 setting are all messed up or I need SLP & Directory Agents on the servers. Can anyone give me some direction or some good articles on Service Location Protocols and Directory Agents for the Novell Client and on NW5 servers. We do not have Boarder Manager which is where most of these references are in the Novell site.

 

[DrGreen26]

Have you been able to resolve this? Never encountered this problem before but if it is still an issue, I will offer any info that may help.


Mark C. Greenwood, CNE
m_jgreenwood@yahoo.com

CNE 4.11 and CNE 5 certified. BS Degree in MIS. Working in the industry for 8 years.

I work with NT servers, NDS for NT as well.

 

[TheBoySmith]

It sounds like you are in Pure IP mode. If so load slpda on your server, accept default settings. Can the client login in over the vpn at all. Maybe its a routing problem from the cisco to the local LAN. If the client connects the vpn, can it ping any llocal devices. I've only ever setup client vpn using Border Mangler so no specific advise for using CISCO.

 

[rlewisii]

Thank-you for your post. The slpda was the step that I was missing. That and a server that can talk to the internet. This whole VPN thing is quite trasparent when it's working, but troubleshooting it is practically non-existent. The only indication that it is working is when you go into the router and see if packets are getting encripted.