This took rather a long time to do its job (on a 200Mb internet link). Meanwhile I:
- Found a spare Linux host,
- ran an OS update/upgrade
- installed openfortivpn
- configured this for first time round
- discovered the remote end does not use a trusted certificate
- reconfigured vpn
- discovered the remote end is publishing routes which trash the local routing configured
- rebooted the server ( I was connecting over ssh)
- made myself a coffee
- RTFM
- Went for lunch
- Came back and discovered the download had finished
- Installed the new version of the MS-Windows client
- Discovered that
- 1) it had overwritten the old client
- 2) that it would not connect - turns out to be a *different* VPN client from what I had before
- Started downloading something else from Fortinet (as advised by colleague)
- Worked out how to manually set up the routes on Linux and got a working connection
- Finished the task for which I wanted a VPN connection
- Startup the new client and found it was the same as the one I had installed earlier