FortiClient 6.0.2 Start VPN over terminal in Linux

[thushjandan]

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

[alcides]

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]

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]

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]

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.

[alcides]

Thank you SteveG.

Of course... but you see, I have problems installing the forticlient...

[altagir]

interested as well

[neonbit]

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.