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

Big Wave Dave bigwavedave at gmail.com
Wed May 18 11:37:37 EDT 2005


I can report that I have 2 users successfully connecting to a VPN 3005
Concentrator, using the latest version of the client... and running
Tiger.

Dave

On 5/17/05, Thomas Kernen <thomas at ip-man.net> wrote:
> 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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