Fortinet SSL VPN Client Setup Without GUI on Linux (Ubuntu)

Question

When I use

./forticlientsslvpn_cli --server 172.17.97.85:10443 --vpnuser forti

to connect to the vpn, (using Forticlient SSLVPN 4.4.2329-1 64bit & Forticlient SSLVPN 4.4.2327-2 64bit) it shows

STATUS::Connected

but I don't get an IP, so it did not really connect. Any ideas please?

Got info from this ServerFault post.

Am I right in assuming this is on Ubunutu 16.04 LTS? – demaniak Jul 26 '16 at 11:14 — demaniak, Jul 26 '16 at 11:14

score 4 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 06 '17 at 09:01

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I resolved the same issue in Ubuntu 16.04 by installing ppp

# apt-get install ppp

answered Sep 06 '17 at 09:01

pnk77

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If you don't see the message `STATUS::Tunnel running` after `Press Ctrl-C to quit` you need ppp. For CentOS/Redhat `yum install ppp` does the trick. – Oly Dungey Apr 18 '18 at 10:47

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Oct 14 '16 at 16:47

Wait till you get message such as STATUS::Tunnel running , since tunneling takes time. You can check if tunnel got created or not by using command

ifconfig ppp0

As I am able to connect to vpn using above CLI command from Ubuntu 16.04 , here is my console output:

STATUS::Login succeed
STATUS::Starting PPPd
STATUS::Initializing tunnel
STATUS::Connecting to server
STATUS::Connected
Press Ctrl-C to quit
STATUS::Tunnel running

Fortinet SSL VPN Client Setup Without GUI on Linux (Ubuntu)

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