Alter Ego

Update: There is actually a way to store your configurations as mentioned in the manual :P I should have read that one earlier.

CONFIGURATION
The daemon reads configuration data from the following places:
- command line options
- config file(s) specified on the command line
- /etc/vpnc/default.conf
- /etc/vpnc.conf
- prompting the user if not found above

vpnc can parse options and configuration files in any order. However
the first place to set an option wins. configuration filenames which
do not contain a / will be searched at /etc/vpnc/ and
/etc/vpnc/.conf. Otherwise and .conf
will be used. If no configuration file is specified on the command-
line at all, both /etc/vpnc/default.conf and /etc/vpnc.conf will be
loaded.

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This is something that I need to make it work, so that I can VPN to my company's network and be able to do work from home (when needed - sadly I still have to come to the office on weekdays :P ). To make this happen, I use VPNC.

1. As simple as always, do:

sudo apt-get install vpnc

2. Once its installed, run VPNC by typing vpnc in CLI.

3. It will start asking for some essential information about the VPN you are connecting to. Make sure you already have all those info. They are:

• IPSec Gateway
• IPSec ID
• IPSec Secret
• Username
• Password

You should be able to get them from your network admin.

After that you are set. After you have successfully connected to your VPN, it will give you its process ID. Remember it as you will need it to kill the VPN connection. You can do so by:

kill process_id

I tried it last night, and it just works!