[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#619098: network-manager-vpnc: use of --local-port 0 might forbid firewall traversal

[Gregory Mounie]

Package: network-manager-vpnc
Version: 0.8.2-3
Severity: normal
Tags: upstream

vpnc, and cisco clients, uses local port 500 (in addition to contact remote
port 500). network-manager-vpnc uses a random local port (--local-port 0
option), probably to allow multiple vpn clients.
Nevertheless, some firewalls, protecting VPN gateways, filter packet not coming
from port 500.

There  is apparently no way set up  local port in the interface.

Workaround: direct use of vpnc



-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.37-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.utf8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages network-manager-vpnc depends on:
ii  libc6                      2.11.2-13     Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libdbus-1-3                1.4.6-1       simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2           0.92-1        simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libglib2.0-0               2.28.2-1      The GLib library of C routines
ii  libnm-glib-vpn1            0.8.2-6       network management framework (GLib
ii  libnm-glib2                0.8.2-6       network management framework (GLib
ii  libnm-util1                0.8.2-6       network management framework (shar
ii  vpnc                       0.5.3r449-2.1 Cisco-compatible VPN client

network-manager-vpnc recommends no packages.

network-manager-vpnc suggests no packages.

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