New VPN Clients Tony Brett Oxford University Computing
New VPN Clients Tony Brett Oxford University Computing Services Tony Brett IT Support Staff Seminar 2 June 2004
Agenda • • • Where we are now What’s changed System Requirements Things to watch out for Demos of New Clients for Linux – – Win. XP Win 2 k Win 98 Fedora Core 2 (2. 76 Kernel) • Future developments Tony Brett IT Support Staff Seminar 2 June 2004
Where we are now • Windows version “current” 3. 61 – Latest 4. 0. 4 Rel • Linux version “current” 3. 7 – Latest 4. 0. 4 B • Mac version “current” 3. 7 – 4. 0. 3 E • Solaris version “current” 3. 7 – 4. 0. 0 Rel Tony Brett IT Support Staff Seminar 2 June 2004
What’s changed • Licensing and export requirements have tightened – Delay in publishing on micros. oucs • • • Much better support for NAT Virtual adapters for VPN Unified GUI Personal Firewall enhancements Co-existence with other VPN vendors Tony Brett IT Support Staff Seminar 2 June 2004
Computer Operating System Requirements Computer with a Pentium®-class processor or greater • Microsoft® Windows® 98 or Windows 98 (second edition) • Windows ME • Windows NT® 4. 0 (with Service Pack 6, or higher) • Windows 2000 • Windows XP • Microsoft TCP/IP installed. (Confirm via Start > Settings > Control Panel > Network > Protocols or Configuration. ) • 50 MB hard disk space. • RAM: – 32 MB for Windows 98 – 64 MB for Windows NT and Windows ME – 64 MB for Windows 2000 (128 MB recommended) – 128 MB for Windows XP (256 MB recommended) System Requirements Computer with and Intel x 86 processor Red. Hat Version 6. 2 or later Linux • (Intel), or compatible libraries with • glibc Version 2. 1. 1 -6 or later, using kernel Versions 2. 2. 12 or later Note The VPN Client does not support SMP (multiprocessor) kernels. 32 MB Ram 50 MB hard disk space Sun Ultra. SPARC computer 32 -bit or 64 -bit Solaris kernel OS Version 2. 6 or later • • 32 MB Ram 50 MB hard disk space Macintosh computer OS X, Version 10. 2. 0 or later 50 MB hard disk space Tony Brett IT Support Staff Seminar 2 June 2004
Gotchas – Things to watch out for • Mac clients are OS-Specific. – Too new a client won’t work with too old an operating system and vice-versa – Particularly change from 10. 0 to 10. 1 to 10. 2 • Support for Linux 2. 6 Kernels only from version 4. 0. 4 B. • Tighter Cisco licensing restrictions. • Updates are regular – watch the CISCO website. Tony Brett IT Support Staff Seminar 2 June 2004
Future Developments • Certificate-based authentication – See DCOCE project • Delivery of key services through Portal so VPN demand reduces Tony Brett IT Support Staff Seminar 2 June 2004
Resources • http: //www. cisco. com/en/US/products/sw/secursw/ps 230 8/prod_release_notes_list. html • http: //users. ox. ac. uk/~aesb/newvpn. ppt • ftp: //oxanon@micros. oucs. ox. ac. uk/sl/vpn Tony Brett IT Support Staff Seminar 2 June 2004
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