[vpn-help] Shrew VPN Client failure on VMWare Workstation using paravirtualized NIC

Alexis La Goutte alexis.lagoutte at gmail.com
Tue Jun 9 15:57:52 CDT 2015


Hi Leen,

There is some known issue when you use Shrew with virtual machine.
And no fix for the moment.

Regards,

On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 11:36 AM, <leen.keus at bciss.nl> wrote:

>
> Hi All,
>
> Problem:
> Shrew VPN Client 2.2.2 failure and reports a time out when used in VMware
> Workstation 10 with a paravirtualized NIC.
>
> To Reproduce:
> - Create a Windows 7 Virtual Machine on VMware Workstation 10.0.4
> build-2249910
> - Install VMware Tools in the virtual machine
> - Shutdown the virtual machine
> - Open the <vm>.vmx file and change the Network Adapter to vmxnet3
>     Original: ethernet0.virtualDev = "e1000"
>     Changed:  ethernet0.virtualDev = "vmxnet3"
> - Restart the virtual machine
>
> - Download VPN Client version 2.2.2 (vpn-client-2.2.2-release.exe)
> - Install the VPN CLient
> - Run and configure the VPN Client.
> - VPN CLient can not connect to host; error message "negotiation time
> occured" after "bringing up tunnel ..."
>
> - Close VPN Client
> - Shutdown the virtual machine
> - Change the Network Adapter back to e1000
> - Restart the virtual machine
> - Start the VPN Client -> No problems
>
>
> Please provide a solution.
>
> Regards,
> Leen Keus
>
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