[vpn-help] EL6 client?

[David G. Miller]

Hi List -

I'm looking into whether there is a way to get the Shrew Soft VPN client 
working with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.X (or clones such as Scientific 
Linux or CentOS).  I have a working configuration installed on a Fedora 
Core 16 system but I need it working on EL6.  I noticed that folks who 
usually provide an RPM such as EPEL, rpmforge, ATrpms, etc. don't have 
one for EL6 which I'm taking as a hint that there is a deeper problem 
than just building the rpm.  I also noticed that the client doesn't work 
on my development EL6 box regardless of whether I build from the archive 
available for download here or build from a backport of the source rpm 
from Fedora 16.  Both of these approaches result in a clean build that 
installs, logs into my VPN server and appear to get packets back to the 
client but not back to the program such as ping or ssh that attempted to 
connect over the VPN.

Has anyone looked into building a statically linked version of iked (the 
other pieces appear to work) under Fedora? Anyone succeed?

Thanks,
Dave

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