EVDO with VPN with MBP with 640 card - FIXED

bkiely · EVDO Newbie Joined: 20 Sep 2006 Posts: 1

I was able to established a connection via Cisco VPN, but only ICMP worked to my work environment. As soon as I turned off Venturi it started working fine.

Again, XP only....not MAC.

I had to kill the VentC.exe in task manager as it appears there is no other way to turn it off with my settings....Dell Mobile Broadband Card Utility. It appears Dell has modified everything since non dell users have settings under the VZaccess where they can turn off the compression. In my case I just show a "V" down in my taskbar which I can't click on in any way which is why I have to kill it in task manager.

I've read lots of other applications not working with Venturi as well.

blax · EVDO Newbie Joined: 05 Oct 2006 Posts: 1 Location: Earth

Any news on the new Cisco version? I am like everyone else who has posted in the lurch right now.

Wixer · EVDO Newbie Joined: 14 Aug 2006 Posts: 2

shadowdoc · EVDO Newbie Joined: 14 Oct 2006 Posts: 2

I am a PC user with a similar problem with the V640 card and the Cisco VPN. I am using an Alienware m9700 laptop running Windows Media Center. I can connect to the internet no problem with the V640, but when I launch the VPN client (v4. Cool

after about 1-2 minutes of normal connection, the connection is dropped. This is very reproducible. Cisco says that the problem is that Verizon modulates the IP address, and when the address changes the VPN client terminates the connection. Verizon engineers have not responded to me after being sent reams of connection logs, but they do admit that the IP does change...I can of course, purchase a fixed IP for $500/year...I don't think so. This does not make sense though, since I used to connect fine with a V620 PC card with evrything else the same. This wpould suggest to me that there is some bug with this card. Does anyone have any thoughts on this ?!?!

syntheticzero · EVDO Newbie Joined: 15 Oct 2006 Posts: 1

I have the same problem, trying to connect to my VPN over my EVDO PPP connection. Please let us know when the new client will be released!

shadowdoc · EVDO Newbie Joined: 14 Oct 2006 Posts: 2

After all my discussions with Cisco, my IS department, Alienware and Verizon, I'm not sure if it's a Cisco client problem or a Verizon/V640 card problem. Since my prior V620 PC card modem worked fine with the same Verizon service and the same Cisco client, I'm guessing it's the V640 Express card that has a bug.

CdtDelta · EVDO Fledgling Joined: 11 Aug 2006 Posts: 16

Posted: 23 October 2006
Revision: Release 4.9.01.0030
Files: vpnclient-darwin-4.9.01.0030-k9.dmg

Features:

The 4.9.01.0030 VPN Client for Mac OS X is the first version to support PPP connections on the Intel processor.
This release is the first to use the new Cisco logo on the splash screen and GUI dialogs.
This universal Binary release for Mac OS X ONLY supports OS X 10.4 and above on both PPC and Intel processors. This version does NOT support Mac OS X 10.3.9 and lower.

Resolved Issues:

CSCsd51113 feature unity nonwindows set mtu vpnclient.ini field
CSCsd51126 unity mac ppp intel fails with mismatch log message 10.4
CSCsc56445 unity mac rebranding volume name voids rebranding files
CSCsf19841 unity mac does not support 64 bit mac pro platform

I just finished downloading it, and haven't installed it yet, but we might have a winner......

mapi · EVDO Newbie Joined: 24 Oct 2006 Posts: 2

CdtDelta · EVDO Fledgling Joined: 11 Aug 2006 Posts: 16

Well, I have to double check it when I get home, but I was able to connect to my corporate network over UDP without any issues. I wasn't able to connect via TCP. But it's not really a great test because I'm AT work, and plugged into the same network that I'm VPN'ing into (and I couldn't unplug the network connection at the time).
So things are looking good right now, but I should have a better idea tonight when I get home.

CdtDelta

(update 12:00am CDT)

Well, I just tried it from home, and both TCP and UDP work. So it looks like this version fixed it for me. However I did have to restart the CiscoVPN service, but that's nothing new.

geolama · EVDO Fledgling Joined: 21 Apr 2006 Posts: 18

I just downloaded the new client and now have no problem getting into my company's internal network. I've been waiting for this for the last three months (since I received one of the first V640's). Now, I don't have to look for a WiFi site to get the older VPN client to connect.

chmtoy · EVDO Newbie Joined: 12 Aug 2006 Posts: 10

Did I miss where the file is downloadable from?
can someone post a location?
Thanks.

Alex · Posted: Sun Oct 29, 2006 10:30 am Post subject:

you will need to login on cisco site and download from here:

http://www.cisco.com/kobayashi/sw-center/sw-vpn.shtml

chmtoy · EVDO Newbie Joined: 12 Aug 2006 Posts: 10

can someone post it somewhere where it can easily be gotten?
I just registered, validated via email, but I still can't download the file.
When I click on the link, the username/password box comes up, but does not accept the one I just created, yet I'm able to login separately to the cisco site.

It looks like you need to have an upgraded ID to be able to download that file.

chmtoy · EVDO Newbie Joined: 12 Aug 2006 Posts: 10

I finally got a friend at Cisco to make it available so that I could download it.
Not sure why it's so difficult to get it as I still could not login trying to download the file.

BUT, I should say that once I was able to download it, I was able to install it, and I was able to use it with Verizon and my One Time Password token with no problems. Whoohoo!

Michael · Posted: Mon Oct 30, 2006 8:39 pm Post subject:

We think this is great news too, we wrote about it in our blog at:

http://evdoinfo.blogspot.com/2006/10/thank-you-cisco-finally.html
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