Global Network Client for Linux

I have a boot environment used for installing Red Hat.  I have a shell script which starts the agnlogd daemon, the agnclientd daemon and then starts the agnclient gui.

Intermittently the agnclient gui issues the message that the "The AT&T Global Network Client daemon (agnclientd) is not running. It must be running to create a VPN connection".    Every time this happens, the second time I go into the gui I am able to connect with no problem.  The shell script sleeps for a few seconds after starting the daemons before bringing up the gui.  I have tried increasing the sleep time (up to 10 seconds - snooze... yawn). This does not help.  There is an agnclientd process running.  What I am looking for is what may be interfering with the agnclientd daemon that would cause a delay in the initialization, or what the agnclient gui is looking for to determine if agnclientd is up and running.  Or could there be another cause entirely.  Thanks, Jane

The AGN Client for Linux has reached the End of Support as of February 1, 2012. Customers may continue to use this unsupported Client, however the helpdesk will no longer be able to assist Customers with any issues related to this Client software. There are no forums specific to connecting on Linux

I'm logged in via the old AT&T NetClient for Linux, on Fedora 20, so it still works, but I was wondering if it is still out-of-support.  Seems like with clients done for iOS and Android, Mac, you are supporting Linux or UNIX in various formats, it would not be that big of a deal to do it PC Linux  (Fedora/Red Hat RPM, Ubuntu/Debian), most of the heavy lifting has been done already [and obviously, there's a working variant now].  Our company is steadily shifting developers away from Windows (where our AT&T NetClient is currently standard), for security and mobility reasons (and the whole Windows 8 lack of penetration), ending up more and more on Linux, OS X, iOS, Android, and the missing part of the equation here is AT&T's lack of a current Linux client.  I am sure this is also the case with much of California, Texas.  A VPN solution is needed for all of the platforms, and it is pretty much there for NetClient, excepting PC Linux. 

I was an AT&T fulltime employee for 5 years and recently moved to IBM as part of the stategic move to IBM for H&AS business unit. For IBM, the standard users operating system is Linux and the Global Network Client VPN client is a wonderful tool that I used to connect to AT&T network. We still need to connect to AT&T vpn for our business and sooner than later, our AT&T provided laptops will be replaced by IBM ones and would love to see the AGNC support for Linux. Is there any plan for this support, in view of the growing use of more Linux users for regular desktop activities. I would love to see that.

Thanks,

-Bangaru.

Hello Bangaru,

There are no plans at this time for a Linux client.

Thank you.