[Vpn-help] Vista and 3G

Matthew Grooms mgrooms at shrew.net
Wed Dec 3 23:41:32 CST 2008


Mike.Peters at opengi.co.uk wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've been testing using Shrewsoft 2.1.4 and 2.2.0-alpha-2 on Windows
> Vista clients to an OpenSwan server (v. 2.4.4). Everything is working
> well if I use a wired/wireless connection.
> 
> However I have encountered a couple of issues when using a 3G internet
> connection. Initially I found that although the tunnel came up and I
> could do most things on my network, I couldn't browse file shares. This
> was solved fairly easily by upgrading to Vista SP1. I now have one
> remaining problem in that if I disconnect and bring down my 3G
> connection, I cannot reconnect - the connection times out.
> 
> The only way I can reconnect to my VPN is to either, reinstall Shrewsoft
> or reboot the client machine. Restarting Shrewsoft and all of the
> Shrewsoft services has no effect. 
> 
> If I bring down the tunnel and reconnect, without disconnecting my 3G
> connection, the tunnel comes up fine, so it is only when I recreate the
> 3G connection that I have the problem. The same problem exists on both
> the latest 2.1.4 and 2.2.0 versions. 
> 
> I've included some details of my configuration below. If you need any
> more details let me know.
> 

Mike,

What does the client debug log output say when the client attempts to 
connect? Do any packets reach the OpenSWAN host or are packets simply 
not being emitted from the client?

Thanks,

-Matthew



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