1. IT Support Staff Seminar 2 June 2004 Tony Brett New VPN Clients Tony Brett Oxford University Computing Services

2. IT Support Staff Seminar 2 June 2004 Tony Brett Agenda Where we are now What’s changed System Requirements Things to watch out for Demos of New Clients for Linux –WinXP –Win2k –Win98 –Fedora Core 2 (2.76 Kernel) Future developments

3. IT Support Staff Seminar 2 June 2004 Tony Brett Where we are now Windows version “current” 3.61 –Latest 4.0.4 Rel Linux version “current” 3.7 –Latest 4.0.4B Mac version “current” 3.7 –4.0.3E Solaris version “current” 3.7 –4.0.0 Rel

4. IT Support Staff Seminar 2 June 2004 Tony Brett What’s changed Licensing and export requirements have tightened –Delay in publishing on micros.oucs Much better support for NAT Virtual adapters for VPN Unified GUI Personal Firewall enhancements Co-existence with other VPN vendors

5. IT Support Staff Seminar 2 June 2004 Tony Brett ComputerOperating SystemRequirements Computer with a Pentium®-class processor or greater Microsoft® Windows® 98 or Windows 98 (second edition) Windows ME Windows NT® 4.0 (with Service Pack 6, or higher) Windows 2000 Windows XP Microsoft TCP/IP installed. (Confirm via Start > Settings > Control Panel > Network > Protocols or Configuration.) 50 MB hard disk space. RAM: – 32 MB for Windows 98 – 64 MB for Windows NT and Windows ME – 64 MB for Windows 2000 (128 MB recommended) – 128 MB for Windows XP (256 MB recommended) Computer with and Intel x86 processor RedHat Version 6.2 or later Linux (Intel), or compatible libraries with glibc Version 2.1.1-6 or later, using kernel Versions 2.2.12 or later Note The VPN Client does not support SMP (multiprocessor) kernels. 32 MB Ram 50 MB hard disk space Sun UltraSPARC computer32-bit or 64-bit Solaris kernel OS Version 2.6 or later 32 MB Ram 50 MB hard disk space Macintosh computerOS X, Version 10.2.0 or later50 MB hard disk space System Requirements

6. IT Support Staff Seminar 2 June 2004 Tony Brett Gotchas – Things to watch out for Mac clients are OS-Specific. –Too new a client won’t work with too old an operating system and vice-versa –Particularly change from 10.0 to 10.1 to 10.2 Support for Linux 2.6 Kernels only from version 4.0.4B. Tighter Cisco licensing restrictions. Updates are regular – watch the CISCO website.

7. IT Support Staff Seminar 2 June 2004 Tony Brett Future Developments Certificate-based authentication –See DCOCE project Delivery of key services through Portal so VPN demand reduces

8. IT Support Staff Seminar 2 June 2004 Tony Brett Resources http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/sw/secursw/ps230 8/prod_release_notes_list.html http://users.ox.ac.uk/~aesb/newvpn.ppt ftp://oxanon@micros.oucs.ox.ac.uk/sl/vpn