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Re: Debian & Contivity VPN



%% "Jeremy Brooks" <jeremyb@whirljack.net> writes:

  jb> We use a Contivity VPN switch where I work.  There is a linux
  jb> client from Apani that works just fine with kernel >= 2.4.21.  And
  jb> they have a beta that works with 2.6.8, but ONLY on
  jb> RH/Fedora/Suse.  When used with Debian, it just causes kernel
  jb> panics.  And the soultion is "Don't use Debian".

  jb> So...has anybody used another VPN client successfully with
  jb> Debian+2.6.8+Contivity?

Just go get a Red Hat kernel (I guess from FC3) and build and install it
on your Debian box.

In the corporate world, unfortunately, there are a number of products
that have binary-only kernel modules and 99% of the time they don't
support much other than Red Hat.  Combined with the fact that Red Hat
applies tons of patches to their kernels, most of these KLMs don't work
with kernel.org aligned kernels like Debian.


But, it's all still under the GPL so you can just go get the source for
Red Hat's kernel, unpack it, use kernel-package to build it into a dpkg,
and install it.  One nice thing about Linux is that the kernel and
userspace are almost completely separate.

I do it this kind of thing all the time.

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