[Vpn-help] Not entering quick mode

[Matt Swift]

Matthew,

The device manager shows the drive for the Shrew Soft Virtual Adapter as:
Shrew Soft
C:\WINDOWS\system32\DRIVERS\virtualnet.sys
Version 1.0.0.1
Date 1/01/2006

I have tried rebooting my machine, but still get the same error.
So i gather i have the issue you described below, which is fixed in 2.0.

Regards,
Matt Swift.


On 15/02/07, Matthew Grooms <mgrooms at shrew.net> wrote:
> Does the device manager show a Shrew Soft driver associated with the
> Virtual Adapter? If not, then we have a problem with the driver package
> not being installed correctly. Otherwise, we are probably dealing with
> an issue that involves two bugs that were both fixed in the 2.0 code
> base ...
>
> 1) When a device is created, it must be created in an enabled state or
> the device registry entries are not initialized. The only way to modify
> static adapter settings is to write them to the registry and then enable
> the device. When you do this for a device that is already enabled,
> problem (2) will occur on some machines. The 2.0 code avoids this by
> always disabling an adapter instances after creation so it can be
> configured and then re-enabled.
>
> 2) After a lot of testing, I realized that it is easy to cause problems
> when you enable and disable hardware devices. Multiple enable or
> disables for a single device can cause it to get stuck in that state.
> The only way I know to resolve the problem is to reboot after the device
> instance is stuck in an unusable state. The 2.0 client internally tracks
> the device state to avoid this issue.
>
> So, have you tried rebooting the OS and then attempting to re-connect to
> your gateway? This may solve the problem. Alternately, you could wait
> and try the 2.0 beta which will be available in the next week or so. At
> least 80% of the code has been rewritten since 1.x and its a much better
> product over all.
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Matthew