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thushjandan
thushjandan
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October 1, 2018
Question

FortiClient 6.0.2 Start VPN over terminal in Linux

  • October 1, 2018
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Hi,

I have downloaded the official FortiClient 6 client from https://forticlient.com/downloads website and would like to establish a SSLVPN connection from the terminal.

Is it possible to start a VPN connection from the terminal with Linux FortiClient 6 VPN client?

I'm using Ubuntu 18.04 Desktop

Best regards,

Thushjandan

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alcides
alcides
New Member
October 1, 2018

Hi,

 

I've done 

yum-config-manager --add-repo https://repo.fortinet.com...64/fortinet.repo 

 

and

yum install forticlient

 

but i got 

[size="3"][root@srvlnhbpi1 ~]# yum install forticlient[/size]

Loaded plugins: fastestmirror Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile No package forticlient available. Error: Nada a fazer  (last phrase is in portuguese)

 

My machine information:

[size="3"][root@srvlnhbpi1 ~]# uname -a[/size] Linux srvlnhbpi1 3.10.108-BPI-M2U-Kernel #1 SMP Sat Nov 11 19:20:49 CST 2017 armv7l armv7l armv7l GNU/Linux

 

Can you please help me?

 

Thank you

SteveG
SteveG
New Member
October 2, 2018

Does FortiClient even support VPN under Linux yet? Last time I looked it didn't. We get around that shortcoming by using an opensource SSL VPN client, it works fine for our Linux estate.

[link]https://hadler.me/linux/openfortigui/[/link]

alcides
alcides
New Member
October 2, 2018

Hi, SteveG, thankyou for your answer.

Casually I also have some problems with openfortivpn... I could not install because I got some errors...

I just need some way to connect (to announce) a device that has a private IP to somewhere, and so, I can connect to the device via SSH to solve any problem that may appear.

SteveG
SteveG
New Member
October 2, 2018

If you have FortiClient installed on the Linux box and it's registered to EMS you'll be able to pickup the internal IP of the client from there.

altagir
altagir
New Member
October 24, 2018

interested as well

neonbit
neonbit
New Member
October 25, 2018

FortiClient on Linux doesn't have the VPN component yet. You'll need to install the SSL VPN client separately. You can run the SSLVPN client from the CLI or the GUI.

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