[vpn-help] no traffic passing through tunnel (Windows Vista SP2 32bit)

Matthew Grooms mgrooms at shrew.net
Tue Mar 1 18:03:00 CST 2011


On 2/14/2011 5:43 PM, Vaclav Brozik wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I am testing Shrew Soft VPN Client 2.1.7 on Windows Vista SP2 32 bit.
> The VPN gateway is some Cisco device. It introduces itself as Cisco Systems, Inc ASA5520-K8.
> The IKE negotiation completes successfully and successful keep-alive packet exchange follows.
>
> Unfortunately no traffic passes the established VPN tunnel. It looks like there is an ARP or routing problem.
>
...
> ARP request sent from the Shrew Soft Virtual Adapter does not appear in the log at all!
> It seems that the VPN client does not see the ARP request.
> Also the "transferred" counters of the IPsec Security Associations stay at 0 all the time.
> I tried a different internet connection (dialup over GPRS) too - no success.
>
> Am I missing something in the VPN client or Windows configuration or could this be a bug in the VPN client?
>

What does the debug level log output look like? Do you see a phase2 
negotiation at all?

http://www.shrew.net/support/wiki/BugReportVpnWindows

-Matthew



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