Physics Hacker

I needed to remotely log into our university network. Until now I was using the Cisco VPN Client, but after an upgrade to Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) I couldn’t start the Cisco Client anymore. As Mac OS X 10.6 now natively supports Cisco VPN connections, I wanted to try it out. Here is a simple HowTo for the TU Dortmund VPN:

1. If you have the Cisco VPN Client installed, uninstall it by executing the following command in the terminal:

   sudo /usr/local/bin/vpn_uninstall

2. Open System Preferences and go to Network
3. Add a new entry with Interface VPN and Type Cisco IPSec
   
   
4. Enter the access information e.g. Account Name (Accountname) and password (Kennwort). For the TU Dortmund it is your UniMail or MyITMC username / password.
5. Click on Authentication Settings (Identifizierungseinstellungen) and insert the information which can be found here for the TU Dortmund.
   
6. Click on Connect (Verbinden)

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