Comments on: Installing the F5 FirePass VPN Client on Ubuntu 10.04 AMD64

By: Kalyan

Kalyan — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 19:27:46 +0000

Worked awesome on ubuntu 11.10 firefox 3.6 version! Thanks for the helpful guide.

By: Andy

Andy — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 04:31:14 +0000

@Jim – Makes me happy to hear that F5 is getting a little more current in their Linux/Firefox support. (My friendly neighborhood FirePass doesn’t have the 3.6.13 update yet, it seems.) But – that said – I haven’t looked back after switching to the CLI client mentioned above:

http://fuhm.net/software/f5vpn-login/

By: Jim

Jim — Sun, 26 Dec 2010 17:33:44 +0000

FYI, I was able to connect using Firefox 3.6.13 and Ubuntu 10.10 64 bit – after a fresh install with no problem.. I started looking for how to do this, and then realized I didn’t need to…AWESOME I just visited the VPN site, filled in my credentials and was able to connect after installing a firefox addon and restarting firefox… much easier – looks like my network has installed everything, not sure if others will have the same luck..

By: Andy

Andy — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 03:26:29 +0000

@Stuart – Thanks! Fixed in the text above.

By: Stuart

Stuart — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 00:53:58 +0000

Thanks for the info! Worked for me with a slight modification. Shouldn’t the last line of the script be the following?

cp -Rp etc svpn var /usr/local/lib/F5Networks/SSLVPN

Again – thanks for the info! It was just what I was looking for!

By: Andy

Andy — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 18:16:01 +0000

@sh4k3sph3r3 – Sorry it took me so long to approve your comment. It had (sadly, wrongly) been filtered into spam.

By: sh4k3sph3r3

sh4k3sph3r3 — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 06:27:56 +0000

this one might worth to try as its works well. I install it on my ubuntu.

Thanks to James Knight (http://fuhm.net/software/f5vpn-login/).

Cheers.

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 21:59:59 +0000

Great, thanks for the input. I’ll let you know how I make out!

Best,
Alex

By: Andy

Andy — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 03:23:58 +0000

@Alex I haven’t tried figuring a way to run the VPN client on the command line (although that would be appealing); I assume the crux would be passing authentication parameters.

Ultimately, two processes appear to be started by the VPN client: “/usr/local/lib/F5Networks/SSLVPN/svpn” and “/usr/sbin/pppd call FirePass”; using lsof I don’t see anything they have open that’s particularly unexpected, but I don’t know how to start them appropriately. /etc/ppp/peers/FirePass appears to be dynamically created with connection-specific configuration information.

I’ve never personally had any contact with F5.

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 18:49:59 +0000

Hi, just wondered if you had any idea of how to install this VPN client to be used on the command-line, instead of just through a browser? I have to do some administration on a remote network through a firepass VPN from a Linux box…

Have you had any contact with F5? I wonder how their support is?

Thanks,
Alex