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FortiNet SSL VPN on Bookworm - alternative clients?

From Christian Gelinek@21:1/5 to All on Thu Jun 27 05:00:01 2024

Hi all,

I'm wondering what options I have to connect as a client to a SSL VPN by Fortinet[0].

Their official client "for Linux" has instructions[1] for CentOS, Fedora
and Ubuntu, although I found a blog[2] documenting the use of the Ubuntu package on Debian 12.

Then I also found (and installed) the package `network-manager-fortisslvpn-gnome` which looked like it should do what
I need, but after configuring, it failed to connect to the VPN.

Has anyone got one working?

[0]: https://www.fortinet.com/support/product-downloads#ztna
[1]: https://www.fortinet.com/support/product-downloads/linux
[2]: https://blog.williamdes.eu/Debian/tutorials/install-forticlient-on-debian-12-bookworm/

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From Christian Gelinek@21:1/5 to Christian Gelinek on Thu Jun 27 05:50:01 2024

On 27/6/24 11:52, Christian Gelinek wrote:

Hi all,

I'm wondering what options I have to connect as a client to a SSL VPN by Fortinet[0].

Their official client "for Linux" has instructions[1] for CentOS, Fedora
and Ubuntu, although I found a blog[2] documenting the use of the Ubuntu package on Debian 12.

Then I also found (and installed) the package `network-manager-fortisslvpn-gnome` which looked like it should do what
I need, but after configuring, it failed to connect to the VPN.

Has anyone got one working?

[0]: https://www.fortinet.com/support/product-downloads#ztna
[1]: https://www.fortinet.com/support/product-downloads/linux
[2]: https://blog.williamdes.eu/Debian/tutorials/install-forticlient-on-debian-12-bookworm/

Answering my own question after searching more:

William Desportes, the blogger from[2] above, also mentioned a software
called OpenFortiGUI on his blog[3] which uses `openfortivpn`, a package
that seems to be in the Bookworm repository already [4].

Running as follows seems to connect fine:

sudo openfortivpn my.vpn.server.com:12345 -u myuser

[3]: https://blog.williamdes.eu/Debian/tutorials/install-openfortigui-on-debian-12-bookworm/
[4]: https://packages.debian.org/stable/openfortivpn

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