Unimaas VPN succes

I've succeeded in connecting to the VPN of the Maastricht University. After a few days of trying to extract the necessary information from the helpdesk ("We think it's a Cisco. We don't do Linux. Change your kernel!"), and a very ugly VPN work-around, the solution turned out to be very simple.

Step 1. Get the Windows Client
Download the Windows executable from the website. It's Cisco's VPN client version 5.

Step 2. Extract it
Allthough the file is an executable zip file, zip was unable to extract it. Fortunately wine ran it just fine, and unzipped the contents to a temporary file.

Step 3. Import the profile
In the archive is a file called unimaas.pcf . This file contains all required information.
Start kvpnc and start "Import Cisco pcf file" from the Profile menu and select the unimaas.pcf file.

Step 4. Enter username
Optionally enter your username and password in the Authentication screen, and save the the profile.

That's it. Click connect and after a few seconds a VPN connection should get established.

note Do not forget to allow the VPN connection through your firewall!