linux cisco vpn client

While the VPN is up, then all your network traffic goes through that VPN, the exception being that you can still connect to 192.168.*.* if both ends of the VPN are configured to allow that. Myetc-resolv.conf needs to be different, depending on whether the VPN is active or not.

I can see that GAIM and Mozilla would want to access the network. Starting an xterm wouldn't seem to want network access. Do your shell start-up files want access to the net?

Are you running some sort of network proxy on the local end? I run Privoxy and the first remote connection I attempt a network connection after starting the VPN will take a long time as Privoxy will time out because it's using the old resolv.conf. The 2nd attempt through Privoxy is fine since something rereads resolv.conf and then network lookups work.

You didn't say whether the xterm (or whatever) is running on the local system (at home, while you're at home) or remote (at work, while you're at home).

G'luck....

P.S.: 4.8 is out now.

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