There's something about Yuwei

After several unsuccessful attempts, Enrico, my partner, finally
got VPN working on my Debian/Ubuntu laptop. Here's how he achieved.

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Hello,

This is how to connect to the university cisco VPN with 100% Free
Software, using Debian or Ubuntu:

To setup, as root:
1. Download the VPN profile from

http://www.itservices.manchester.ac.uk/medialibrary/UoMrestricted/vpn/LinuxUser$
2. apt-get install vpnc
3. Run /usr/share/vpnc/pcf2vpnc LinuxUsers.pcf > /etc/vpnc/University

To execute, as user:
- Start the VPN with: sudo vpnc-connect University
- Stop the VPN with: sudo vpnc-disconnect

There are two interesting packages, one called network-manager-vpnc and
one called kvpnc, that could potentially make things even easier, but
once we got a running VPN setup we did not want to spend more time
investigating :-)

Once connected to the VPN, the user can do everyday work including
printing as usual.
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Useful links:
[1] http://www.itservices.manchester.ac.uk/vpn/
[2] http://www.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/~massar/vpnc/