[c-nsp] Cisco VPN client on Mac OS X 10.4 - still broken?

Zachary Spalding zspalding at gmail.com
Tue May 17 17:28:53 EDT 2005


I have tried running it on my mac-mini (g4) and on my Ibook (g3), both 
of which are just one processor machines.

Zack


On May 17, 2005, at 2:57 PM, Brant I. Stevens wrote:

> The only thing I can think of is that this was for one-processor 
> machines
> only...  What Mac are you trying to run it on?
>
>
> On 5/17/05 9:57 AM, "Zachary Spalding" <zspalding at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Tristan,
>>
>> I have been experiencing the exact problem as you, unfortunately I 
>> have
>> not come up with a fix.  You might want to follow some of the chat in
>> the Cisco Forum that has been talking about the problem, just search
>> for the word tiger in the forum at http://www.cisco.com/go/netpro.  
>> But
>> I have done a clean install of Tiger and created a new PCF file with
>> the same problem with the VPN client.  This is the setup I am running
>> in.
>>
>> 1) OS X 10.4
>> 2) VPN Client 4.6.03(0160)
>> 3) IPSec over TCP
>> 4) Local LAN Enabled
>> 5) Split-Tunneling
>> 6) VPN Concentrator 3015
>> 7) VPN Concentrator Version 4.1.4B
>> 8) IP assignment is done with the concentrator
>>
>>
>>
>> Zack
>>
>> On May 16, 2005, at 11:57 PM, Tristan Gulyas wrote:
>>
>>> All,
>>>
>>> Cisco have finally graced the world of Mac users with their
>>> Tiger-compatible
>>> 4.6.03(0160) client which is officially supported under OS X 10.4.
>>>
>>> Unfrotunately I'm not having any luck.
>>>
>>> I have attempted to connect to our Cisco VPN concentrator (3000
>>> series) and
>>> it connects, authenticates and displays the connection banner,
>>> however, it
>>> doesn't give me any details within the client and the OS doesn't seem
>>> to
>>> have a tunnel active.  The client doesn't even show an IP address for
>>> the
>>> link and packets still go out the network interface as if I hadn't 
>>> even
>>> started the client.
>>>
>>> Furthermore, when I try and disconnect, nothing happens - the
>>> disconnect
>>> button greys itself out for a second and that's it.  I can't even 
>>> quit
>>> the
>>> VPN client and the only way out of it is to kill -9 it.
>>>
>>> I have  tried removing the client by hand by removing all modules and
>>> settings files.  I have also tried the 10.4.1 OS update with 
>>> identical
>>> results.
>>>
>>> Others seem to be expericing the same problem.  Is this likely to be 
>>> a
>>> configuration issue with our concentrators? Our production clients 
>>> are
>>> the
>>> 4.03 release.  Is there anything different with the PCF profiles
>>> between
>>> 4.03 and 4.6?
>>>
>>> thanks,
>>> Tristan
>>>
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