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

Thomas Kernen thomas at ip-man.net
Wed May 18 02:44:44 EDT 2005


Works here connecting to a PIX 515E, and still works after upgrading to 
10.4.1 (from 10.4.0). I do seem to have noticed that the reported 
problem seems to only affect VPN Concentrator 3000 users or am I 
mistaken?

Thomas

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Zachary Spalding" <zspalding at gmail.com>
To: <cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net>
Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2005 11:28 PM
Subject: Re: [c-nsp] Cisco VPN client on Mac OS X 10.4 - still broken?


>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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