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<font face="Georgia">I just wanted to chime in that while the
'daemon stop/start' batchfile script is indeed homebrew - it
works, and it's a 1,000X better option than rebooting, at least
until a real fix can be found. Just takes a single click and about
three seconds, and then the user can reconnect. <br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 9/19/13 11:25 AM, Jim Harle wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Hello
Jason,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">If
you are looking for “enterprise class” support for the Shrew
client, I don’t believe you are going to find it…this
mailing list seems to be a user-to-user “best effort” in
helping to sort out issues; I don’t recall seeing any posts
from any Shrew Devs, unless I am ignorant and don’t know who
they are. My personal perspective is that IPSec VPNs are
not always “straightforward,” and there is a lot that can go
wrong, hence the migration to SSL VPNs many years ago – even
Cisco is now end-of-lifing their IPSec clients.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">My
limited time on the list has shown me that people are
willing to help each other when they can, but silence seems
to mean nobody has a good grasp on how to address a
particular issue. I could be wrong, but I think we
shouldn’t hold our breath waiting for some Shrew Dev
expertise to appear here.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Just
my two cents.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">-Jim<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span
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<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:vpn-help-bounces@lists.shrew.net">vpn-help-bounces@lists.shrew.net</a>
[<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:vpn-help-bounces@lists.shrew.net">mailto:vpn-help-bounces@lists.shrew.net</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Jason
Pepper<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, September 19, 2013 3:16 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:vpn-help@lists.shrew.net">vpn-help@lists.shrew.net</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [vpn-help] Recurrent Dropped Connections<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">I
support 55 users in our company with a mixed bag of VPN
connectivity.</span><span
style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Since
we started installing 64bit Win 7 we discovered there
is no compatible CheckPoint client for 64bit Windows.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Enter
Shrew the saviour.. or so I thought.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">I
run OSX and Ubuntu as my primary operating systems but
we install Win7 for our users.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Shrew
on OSX and Ubuntu has worked flawlessly since I
installed it, it never drops.. period.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">On
Windows 7, however, I am receiving a flurry of
complaints from users who report (in different ways)
that the connection is dying and the only way they can
seem to resurrect the connection is to reboot the
computer. This is (obviously) not acceptable. We have
tried to isolate a set of circumstances which cause
this problem to reproduce at will but alas we were
unsuccessful.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">I
have trawled this forum and been subscribed for a
while now, so I've seen that people are experiencing
similar issues and there appear to be various
suggestions for resolution (e.g. writing daemon-kill
scripts) which seem a little home-brew for me. Plus,
none of the error scenarios completely match the ones
described by our users.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">This
is my first question on this forum so I don't want to
illicit a flame-flurry.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">What
is the best way to ask for assistance in resolving
this problem ?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">I
have a bunch of IKE trace files I can supply if that
helps someone help me, but I didn't want to post them
unbidden.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Also,
please note I am primarily an Oracle and Java
developer not a security expert, so speak in simple
terms (if that's possible !)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">--<br>
Many Thanks..<br>
<br>
Jason Pepper<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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