Description of problem: In fact there doesn't seem to be a VPN client of any type in RHEL-5. Obviously any client working away from their office will need a secure connection method. The various vpn pluggins to NetworkManager are the obvious (and most user friendly) way to accomplish this.
*** Bug 220076 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
All these packages are in Fedora/extras (both vpnc and NM-vpnc). Planned solution for this problem is EPEL (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/), which is worked on, and currently you can just add Extras repo to your /etc/yum.repos.d -- see http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/UsingExtras (not sure about changes in support of your RHEL, but it shouldn't affect you AFAIK).
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Just that comment 2 is wrong -- you can just add Extras to RHEL 5, because pretty soon (at least with release of FC7) Fedora Extras will be out of sync with RHEL libraries.
s/you can/you cannot/ oh well
vpnc is not officially supported by cisco and not in RHEL. Therefore NetworkManager-vpnc can not be in RHEL. It would qualify for EPEL, I think. Someone would need to drive that in the community.
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