Is there a real way to connect to WatchGuard's VPN from Linux?

Posted by Sergey Kirienko on Server Fault See other posts from Server Fault or by Sergey Kirienko
Published on 2010-01-18T20:39:13Z Indexed on 2010/03/31 5:33 UTC
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WatchGuard officially has clients only for Windows and Mac. But I see that it uses openvpn internally. I couldn't connect to WG from Linux.

Is there someone who actually get this working? How?

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