vpnc

Deploys Maurice Massar's 'client for cisco vpn concentrator'. Primarly designed to provide a temporary VPN connection for remote infrastructure testing.

Usage

Set the attributes below and include vpnc::default at the top of your node's run_list.

Attributes

• node['vpnc']['ipsec_gateway'] - value for "IPSec gateway"
• node['vpnc']['ipsec_id'] - value for "IPSec ID"
• node['vpnc']['ipsec_secret'] - value for "IPSec secret"
• node['vpnc']['xauth_user'] - value for "Xauth username"
• node['vpnc']['xauth_pass'] - value for "Xauth password"

Note: the ipsec_secret and xauth_pass values may be obfuscated via base64 encoding; simply prefix their encoded values with the fixed string base64:. E.g.:

require 'base64'
puts "base64:#{Base64.encode64('imsosecret5').chomp}"
# base64:aW1zb3NlY3JldHk1

• node['vpnc']['compile_time'] - Should vpnc be deployed at compile time? Defaults to false