Fancy GUI for your Cisco VPN client

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Written by Anze Vidmar on 2005-09-12

Dress up your Cisco VPN client

Those of you who are using Cisco VPN client (http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/vpn/client/) for your everyday needs, here is a cool tip how to make the client even more useful in your Gnome environment. If you are a Gnome user, and you like graphical tools better, you can raher use a nice GUI suite for Cisco VPN client instead of typing the connection strings every time by hand into the console.

Get it!

The "dress" is called a Gnome gvpn-dialer and it's available for download here (http://gvpn-dialer.sourceforge.net/). The easiest way is to install it from RPM file, which is available here (http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/gvpn-dialer/gvpndialer-1.0-1.i386.rpm?download).

Install the software via gnome package manager or in console:

rpm -ivh gvpndialer-1.0-1.i386.rpm

Use it!

That's it. Your brand new dress for your Cisco VPN client is installed and you can fire it up from your Gnome Internet menu. When you start it, the icon is shown in the notification area of the Gnome menu panel:

Configure it to suite your needs:

You can simply connect and disconnect from just right clicking the icon on your panel. When connected, the icon shows you that:

And you can also see a nice collection of VPN statistics in the status window

Enjoy! ;-)