VPNC-Nortel for Mac OS X (10.7)

Bagus — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 06:20:01 +0000

I always wanted to connect my MacBook Pro to my University network using VPN when I am not in the University. But the Apani Nortel Contivity VPN Clients provided by my University are compatible only until Mac OS X 10.4. So I installed an open-source VPN Client for this. Luckily I found a detailed instructions for installing VPNC-Nortel for Mac OS X in this website. I followed those instructions with some modifications until I have a working VPN connection. And it works like a charm.

Here are my steps:

Install Xcode 4 from Mac App Store.
Install MacPorts.
Follow the steps written here.
When I compile the software, I got this error message:

/usr/include/stdio.h:449: error: previous declaration of ‘getline’ was here make: *** [sysdep.o] Error 1
So I added this line:

#define HAVE_GETLINE 1

to #if defined(__APPLE__) section in sysdep.h to correct the issue.

After the compilation finished without error:

sudo cp vpnc /usr/sbin/
sudo cp vpnc-disconnect /usr/sbin/

Soon after I run the program, it was terminated by dead peer detection. So I run it with this command:
```
sudo vpnc --dpd-idle 0
```
To disconnect:
```
sudo vpnc-disconnect
```

Here is my configuration file:

Vendor nortel
kernel ipsec
IPSec gateway my_university_vpn_server
Local Port 45000
IKE Authmode gpassword
IKE DH group dh2
IPSec ID my_group_name
IPSec secret my_group_password
Xauth username my_personal_username
Xauth password my_personal_password

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VPNC-Nortel for Mac OS X (10.7)

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