Engineering

Just ship it

Let me start with a story. There was a group of friends, somewhere in the fog that was 1997. They had a common interest - computer programming. But not any kind of software, no, they wanted to see how far they could push hardware back then. They were doing the kind of stuff that today you only see in video games. They traveled to various competitions around Europe, having gotten some good placements with their entries.
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Connecting to a Cisco VPN with OpenConnect on a Chromebook without Crouton

I have been looking at a Toshiba Chromebook 2 with Full HD screen for the last few months. The $300 price tag, my dying home laptop, and the good reviews convinced me to finally take the plunge and purchase it as a laptop for home use. If you, like myself, have a Cisco VPN at work, you might find out that you can’t connect the Chromebook to your VPN. From what our network engineer found out it’s basically just some XAUTH mismatch.
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