[c-nsp] Cisco VPN Client Causes Mac OS X Crash - Update!

[Mike Andrews]

Nick Hilliard wrote:
> On 14/09/2009 12:19, Mark Tinka wrote:
>> PS: I'm now running Snow Leopard (10.6.1). No crashes due to
>>      this, thus far, but who knows...
> 
> Unsurprisingly, VPN client doesn't run on a 64 bit snow leopard kernel.
> 
> However, VPN client works fine with Parallels desktop chugging away in 
> the background on Leopard.  Haven't tried it on snow leopard, as I'm in 
> 64 bit mode.

Kind of a side note here, but Apple now ships a Cisco-compatible IPSec 
client as part of Snow Leopard.  In System Preferences -> Network, if 
you add a new connection, and pick VPN as the type, "Cisco IPSec" is now 
one of the choices...  where previously only PPTP and L2TP-over-IPSec 
were.  Makes sense, as they've been shipping a similar client in the 
iPhone for a while now.

It may not have 100% feature parity (and I don't know if it supports 
IPv6), but it's close enough for us, and allowed me to uninstall Cisco's 
IPSec client that was causing frequent panics on boot for me under Leopard.

As others mentioned, the Anyconnect client also works well.  The only 
platform Anyconnect is giving me fits on is Vista...  XP 32-bit and 
64-bit Windows 7 run it fine...