[vpn-help] Win7 Home premium to Netgear FVS338 (PSK)

Matthew Grooms mgrooms at shrew.net
Tue Jan 5 18:05:28 CST 2010


On 12/28/2009 2:39 AM, Sebastian Scala wrote:
> Connection works fine if the remote computer is connected via LAN or HSDPA.
>
> Shrew-client (2.1.6) is unable to establish a connection (“negotiation
> timeout occurred”) if the client uses WLAN. The phenomenon was
> reproducible in at least 2 different WLAN-connections.
>
> This issue seems to be Win7(64?)-specific as identical configuration of
> a Windows Vista (32-home) machine on the same network-infrastructure
> worked just fine.
>
> There are no traces of an attempt to establish a connection in the
> VPN-log of the VPN-gateway-router.
>
> Any suggestions?
>

Hi Sebastian,

Do you see the Shrew Soft Filter driver service associated with your 
wireless adapter? If not, it may be using the newer NDIS specification 
that we need to add support for. Vista machines won't see this issue.

-Matthew



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