IPSec VPN Clinet for Pop_OS!

Software & Web Applications
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Hello all!

Hopefully a noob question:

(New to linux, but am willing and wanting to learn)

I am trying to connect to a Fortigate IPSec VPN from my laptop running Pop_OS! version 21.04. I tried the forticlient from Fortinet, but the linux version does not support IPSec :frowning:

Looking at just base Pop_OS! I can’t find any option to choose IPSec as the protocol.

Looking online I have found things like openswan, libreswan and strongswan as all supporting IPSec, but any guide I find on how to install it talks about setting up your own VPN server. Which I don’t want to do, I just want to connect to one. (Unless I have to make one to connect to one?) Again I’m a new to linux, but that just doesn’t seem like what I want to do.

I’m running pfsense as my router, that shouldn’t matter for this, but if it does let me know.

Appreciate the help!

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Did you install this package?

sudo apt install network-manager-openvpn-gnome
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Does openvpn support IPSec?

After some more digging I found this article here

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I tried the package you suggested and it installed fine, but does not appear to support IPSec.

After some more troubleshooting, I was able to get IPsec installed for Pop_OS!, but I am still unable to get the VPN working. My guess is that I am missing some cert or setting, but I have no way to get those, so for now, I’m calling it quits on IPSec VPN on linux.