The steps are easy for me to connect to my VPN at work. Expect an update in a week or two about whether I think the Shrew Soft VPN Client is stable. Now the only question time will tell is how stable it is. It took me some time to figure it out, but it works.

I have to say that I am very impressed with Shrew Soft. I had to change the PFS setting to “group 2”. pcf file, I only had to make one configuration change. As I mentioned to others on the list, try playing with the PFS setting or enabling the cisco-udp NAT-T option. If it gets to the ‘tunnel enabled’ point, that means you completed phase1, Xauth and modecfg negotiations. The key piece of information I needed was this: The developer has a mailing list, as you saw with one of my links above. Hopefully for some of you, it worked first time for you when you imported the. I think I am about going to email the developer, but I sure don’t want to bug him. – There is not really any clear failure reason for a user. I had to right-click on the “Trace Utility” shortcut and choose “Run as administrator” then I was able to turn on debugging. There is a program under Start | All Programs | Shrew Soft VPN Client called “Trace Utility” that is installed with the Shrew Soft VPN Client can be used for debugging. Now I just have to figure out how to configure it to connect here at work.Īll right I am back again and I am trying to debug.

Horray!!!Īfter installing, I tested undocking my laptop from its docking station and then docking my laptop, and again, no blue screens, so I think it is good to go. I installed it and it requested a reboot so I rebooted, and the first good news is that I didn’t blue screen when my workstation booted up. Actually they now have a release version on their download site but there is a beta of the next version (Update ) 2.1.6-beta-6 that your may want to use (or a later version if you are reading this well after I wrote or updated it). However they have a new version that is out that is for Windows 7 64 bit. I came across ShrewSoft’s VPN Client a while ago, but it originally blue screened my Windows 7 box, but it was a version that didn’t support Windows 7. ( UPDATE: I got ShrewSoft’s VPN Client working, so keep reading down below.) So I went in search of another VPN solution that would be more compatible. Ok, so I couldn’t get Cisco’s VPN client to work for Windows 7 64 bit.

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