I’ve recently bumped into a problem with using a SSL Network Extender when trying to establish a VPN connection through the web browser. The SNX was throwing a ‘failed to initialize’ error without any details despite the right credentials. To identify the error, I needed to execute the snx from the command line (snx) which [...]

It seems that in Ubuntu 10.04 the tun module (which is used to create fake network interface) is compiled into the kernel instead of being a module as in Ubuntu 9.10. It results in error while running the snx command: FATAL: Module tun not found. This problem can be solved either by recompiling the kernel [...]