[Vpn-help] New 2.1.0 release candidate ...

[Matthew Grooms]

All,

I just posted the second 2.1.0 release candidate on the website. This 
build includes important bug fixes and improvements to DPD support. A 
few major improvements have also been made to Vista platform support.

I noticed that the NDIS 5 Miniport driver was being installed on Vista 
targets ever since the support was first introduced. They still loaded 
and worked as Vista is somewhat backwards compatible in this regard. 
After switching the installer scripts to install the NDIS 6 Miniport 
driver, I started to experience quite a few problems. This helped expose 
what, I hope, was the same issue reported by others installing the 
client on Vista platforms. It would interfere with adapters using NDIS 6 
Miniport ( Ethernet/WLAN ) drivers but legacy NDIS drivers worked fine.

The other improvement is related to Vista driver signing. I updated my 
test hosts to SP1 and discovered that Microsoft had disabled the boot 
load option for not verifying signed drivers. This forced our hand into 
obtaining a code signing certificate which allows us to self sign Vista 
drivers. What this means is that it is no longer necessary to muck with 
system setting to load the client on Vista. You will still be prompted 
to verify driver installation but it should 'just work'. With any luck, 
signed drivers for the other platforms won't be too far off into the future.

http://www.shrew.net/?page=download

Fixing the Vista support took a lot of time to track down and correct. I 
have a few other things to look into but I should be able to refocus on 
other tasks early next week. If you had reported problems with Vista 
installations, please give this new build a try and let me know how it 
works out.

Thanks again,

-Matthew