[Vpn-help] New 2.1.2 beta available ...

Matthew Grooms mgrooms at shrew.net
Tue Sep 2 13:10:14 CDT 2008


Joerg de la Haye wrote:
> Hi Matthew,
> 
> I have an issue with the Lightweight Filter (64Bit-Vista).
> If I connect to different networks via DHCP (e.g. to network 1 in the 
> morning, a few hours later to network 2 at another location, and so 
> on...) I can't use the connection immediately. The problem doesn't have 
> to do with IPsec, it appears without the Shrew Soft client started at 
> all. Unchecking the Lightweight Filter for the used network adapter 
> helps then, the connection starts to work. After reenabling the 
> Lightweight Filter the connection stays useable. I've got the problem 
> with version 2.1.0-rc2 and 2.1.1 and unfortunately I can't reproduce the 
> behaviour reliably, it seems that it doesn't happen everytime.
> 
> Any ideas what might be the cause? For me it looks like the Lightweight 
> Filter is filtering the DHCP address exchange. Or is it a routing 
> problem? Today I installed your new beta, maybe my problem is fixed by 
> your Vista commit r1227?
> 

Possibly. There were fixes to the route code. If this problem happens 
again, I would check your route table and the VPN Trace applications 
rule section to see if any left over configuration is lingering. If so, 
please let me know and I will look into getting the problem resolved.

-Matthew



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