I am trying to connect to my companies VPN network with no luck. Netlock does not offically support SuSe, but does support Redhat 8.0. I performed a test install of Redhat 9.0 and the Netlock VPN client on a machine. I was able to connect sucessfully to the network.
On SUSE 8.2, the software installs correctly and loads the kernel modules properly. I can connect to the VPN network, but cannot ping any devices on the other side.
I have removed the SuSeFirewall2 software and checked everything I know.
Once connected to the VPN a netstat -nr is virtually identical between the Redhat and SuSe boxes. Also netstat -vat greping for the ports and IP's in question are also the same.
The only strange behavior I have notices is from time to time , root gets the following message.
Kernel IP routing table -bash: Kernel: command not found
There is nothing in the message log about this.
I also removed the patched kernel and sources, then re-installed them the originals from the CD.
Well you got further than I did. The client worked under SuSE 8.1 using the gcc 3.2 compiler. The modules fail to load correctly for me using 8.2 and the gcc 3.3 compiler. I ended up repartitioning my "root" disk and installing Red Hat 9.0 on my system, so that I could continue to use the client. (It was do that or reload Windows) I believe that the issue is with the difference in compilers and that until Redhat goes to gcc 3.3, that the Netlock client will be unusable under SuSE versions later than 8.1. Unfortunately as you mentioned, Netlock will not provide support for SuSE so until then I'm stuck dual booting between Redhat and SuSE. As an aside, has anyone come up with a clean way to share a home directory between distro's without them stepping all over the dot files and directories? Regards, Paul