VPN craziness
October 19, 2006
I recently got a VPN key for access to the office from home. I’d installed it (cisco vpn), installed my key, and all was well. I should write that I’m doing this from a laptop running kubuntu, meaning I’m doing everything with KDE (3.5) running. About 3 weeks I decided to try (again) Gnome. I used it almost exclusively for about 3 weeks, and during that time I got a new VPN key file - some sort of security update. The vpn client was still the same, just the key changed. However, using it wouldn’t let me connect. Well, I could connect, but couldn’t ping or connect to any machine on the network. Just today I switched back to KDE, and everything works just fine. Any ideas why???
UPDATE - I think this may have something to do with the suspend mode on the laptop. I experienced the same issue under KDE last night, and I’ve only suspended the laptop since I last reboot. :/ Hrm… No time to test the theory right now (just had that little light bulb go on over my head while getting up this morning!) but will test that out in the next couple days.
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