[Vpn-help] shrew vpn doesn't work with Native Windows 7 Mobile Broadband feature

[Matthew Grooms]

philippe brangier wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I tested shrew soft VPN (2.1.5 and 2.1.6 beta) with Windows 7 64b and a 
> wwan (Mobile Broadband, 3G) card. It work well with a windows vista 
> driver and a third party connexion manager. But it failt to work with a 
> native seven driver and the windows seven native manager.
> 
> The "Shrew Soft Lightweight Filter" doesn't appear in the wwan driver.
> 
> Maybe you need to make some modifications to support the new NDIS6.20 
> WWAN Miniport driver Model or the new NDIS Medium : NdisMediumWirelessWAN  ?
> 
> some (technicals) informations about this new windows Seven feature :
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd445723.aspx
> http://download.microsoft.com/download/5/E/6/5E66B27B-988B-4F50-AF3A-C2FF1E62180F/MBL-T602_WH08.pptx
> 

Hi Philippe,

Thanks for posting this information. We have had reports of the client 
software not working with some wireless cards in some cases. This may 
very well be related to the issue you describe. I would expect that if 
NdisMediumWirelessWAN was introduced in NDIS6.20, there would be some 
sort of backwards compatibility for NDIS6 LWF drivers. I will forward 
this post to our contract kernel developer and see if he has any ideas 
on the matter. If not, maybe we can implement the missing functionality.

Thanks again,

-Matthew