On Thu, 2010-12-02 at 13:22 +0100, O. Wagner wrote: > Thanks for your reply and sorry for my late answer. I'm not a expert > with this packet traces. I hope I did it right - see attachment. If you > need another format I can try to change it. That looks good; thanks. It looks like it's making a simple HTTPS connection to the server, from which it'll be downloading some configuration information and then setting up an IPSec connection. Can you point it at a secure web server of your own and see the query it makes (you can do this with openssl s_server from the command line). Then make that same query to the 'real' server and see what the response looks like.... basically play man-in-the-middle until you can see what's going on. With a bit of luck you should be able to come up with a simple wrapper which makes the HTTPS request to the server to get the details, then invokes vpnc... -- dwmw2