Is there a SonicWall client for Linux? When I searched around I could only find answers several years old.
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There is no special client for SonicWall. Use Openswan on your linux box, configure a tunnel between your box and sonicwall, with NAT traversal. Here are few docs:
Edit: follow the comments for better answer
5The download link for the Linux client from SonicWall is here.
Go to that page, the follow the directions to log in to the Beta site as a guest (username is "demo", password is "password" - as provided on the page), then click the large NetExtender button, which will initiate a download of the latest .tgz file.
Extract it and run ./install as root (using sudo), then run the GUI. The installer has instructions to help you all along the way.
As it was remarked that most links in the existing answers were dead and not much information was available, I thought to list below some resources that still exist:
The NetExtender clients (and others) can be downloaded from theClients Download pageand installation notes are available in thisKnowledge Base article. Here are the links from the above page:
Some more useful articles :
- Ubuntu Linux: How to setup a VPN connection to a SonicWall router using Openswan and Pre-shared Keys (PSK) (from 2009)
- How to Install Dell’s SSL VPN client – NetExtender – on Ubuntu 16.04.x (from 2016)
- SonicWALL VPN with FreeS/WAN using IKE (old one from 2002)
I'm not sure if this is model specific but where I work we have an Aventail WorkPlace SonicWall VPN. When you put the hostname that you use to connect to it into a browser it takes you to a page that has links where you can download client software to connect to the VPN box. From here there are links to down Linux VPN client software.
The software comes in 32/64 bit formats as tarballs named, AventailConnect-Linux.tar & AventailConnect-Linux64.tar.
The only other branding that I've noticed on the download page is that it says nortel in the title page, and "Aventail Connect with smarttunneling", on the side of the download page.
I wrote up on my blog about this as well, . I included some screenshots in that post of the various pages where you can download the Aventail VPN client software.
If you have a My Sonicwall account, you can download SSL VPN clients for Linux. The Program is called NetExtender.
Note that NetExtender is a gui app intended to run from a desktop session. If you want something that'll run at system level, you'll have to go for OpenSwan or similar.
Download netextender from sonic wall. Add the suffix :4433 to the IP address and specify the domain as LocalDomain. This worked for me.
In case it is still useful. Where I work Connect Tunnel is used, try the connection with NetExtender without success, thanks to this answer browse the demos until you find a link where the installer that was mentioned in other pages "ConnectTunnel-Linux64.tar" is downloaded there will download a .jar, unzip and follow the steps . translated by Google
Por si aun es util. en donde trabajo se usa "Connect Tunnel", intente la conexión con "NetExtender" sin éxito, gracias a esta respuesta navegue por los demos hasta encontrar un link donde se descarga el instalador que se mencionaban en otras paginas "ConnectTunnel-Linux64.tar" alli descargaran un .jar, se descomprime y se siguen los pasos .
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