If anybody has a solution to this problem or any latest info, would you kindly post it here please !

Many Thanks,
Alex

Unfortunately, the only solution is to wait for Cisco to release a Tiger compatible version of their client. No news yet on an exact date.

4.6.03.0160 is here... link to versiontracker.com
 

OK,

It seems to be here... I will try it out on Monday...



http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/12696

"Product Description:
Simple to deploy and operate, the Cisco VPN Client enables customers to establish secure, end-to-end encrypted tunnels to Cisco remote access VPN devices supporting the Unified Client Framework. This thin design, IPSec implementation is available via Cisco.com for use with any Cisco central site remote access VPN product and is included free of charge with the Cisco VPN 3000 Concentrator. The client can be pre-configured for mass deployments and initial logins require very little user intervention. VPN access policies and configurations are downloaded from the central gateway and pushed to the client when a connection is established, allowing simple deployment and management as well as high scalability. The Cisco VPN Client provides support for Windows 98, ME, NT 4.0, 2000, XP, Mac OS X, Linux Intel and Solaris UltraSparc.
Software also available from:
http://www.cisco.com

Login | Technical Support | Software Center | VPN Software | VPN Client | Download
User must have SmartNET login with Encryption entitlement to access software.

What's new in this version:
Support for Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)"


-tombou

link?
 

Hi! Is it possible for anybody to provide a link to somewhere other than cisco? You need a login name and password, and that's something I don't have. :-(

If not, can somebody maybe provide a filename so I can search for it?


Thanks!!!

Cisco SW
 

Wiz,

To the best of my knowledge, Cisco tightly controls access to all of their binaries. You need to have the Cisco login, otherwise VersionTracker would have provided the direct link to the download. Sorry, that I am not of much help. :(

good luck!

-tombou

More problems...
 

Hi!

Well, thank you for the reply. The VPN Admin was able to download the client and email it to me yesterday. However, I am still unable to connect to the vpn server....sort of. I'm able to connect to it and it does prompt for my password and accepts it. However, once I'm fully connected, I'm unable to get to anything at work. It's as if the packets aren't being routed through the vpn client. I hope others have better luck at it than I did!


Thanks!

Current release is single proc only
 

It is stated on the download page that this release is

"At present, only compatible with single processor configurations"


Wiz, what is your HW configuration? If you have a shiney new dual g5, then that is probably the issue that you are running into.

I am just glad that they did a simple fix so that at least some Tiger users can utilize the VPN. Hopefully, we can see the full update soon.

-tombou

Ouch!
 

Wiz,

After reviewing the the user reports from versiontracker, I am very reluctant to advise any of my customers to use this latest release. Since, I usually live on the bleeding edge, I will attempt to use the vpn at work tomorrow.

Since you are already there, we can attempt to figure out what is going on with your machine.

You can try this matter. I'd success with this if you keep previous version.
This release looks incomplete version, it cannot create secure session and
hang.. must force quit and I figure out GUI has bug... So I decide to use old GUI
but new VPN Kernel. and I try follow and it Success... to connect VPN Server...

1. Uninstall all Cisco VPN Client,and install Previous (I did 4.6.02.0023)
2. Install 4.6.03.0160, select target and choose Customize option.
3. De-select vpnclient-gui(Skip this upgrade) and reboot.

This mean you still use previous VPN GUI with New VPN Kernel.
I think it's only way to make work until CISCO release New version

still no luck
 

Hi!

I have a PB (single processor) g4 box that I'm trying to do the install on. I have tried the instructions from the previous user (uninstalled the cisco vpn, installed the old version, then the new but deselect the GUI), but the same problems still exist. If I go into the "statistics" once I'm connected, I do not receive an IP address, there is nothing that is being routed, everything is 0'ed out... Same problems as before...

I spoke with the vpn admin who also runs on a mac os pb g4, and he's having the same exact problems as I am. However, we gave the client to another user to test, and he said that he was able to get it to work. When I installed Tiger, I did a fresh install; the vpn admin did an upgrade. Both of us have the same symtoms.

Does anybody know if there's another way to uninstall the VPN client rather than drag and drop to the trash? That's the way that I did, and it seems like it still keeps my previous settings (profiles), and the installs always say "upgrade" as opposed to "install fresh copy". I'm wondering if that may have something to do with it...


Thanks!

it is same symtoms I tried firsttime, if your current version of CISCO VPN Cluient GUI
version show 4.6.03.0160 try replace old version. between versin 4 above.

This may sound stupid, but we gotta eliminate all possibilites.

In my previous job I used Cisco's VPN software too. I used it with 10.3.8.

I used to get that message whenever I did not have the mac connected to any network. This means, I didn't have an ethernet cable connected or the Airport was turned off...i.e. no network address associated with a physical adapter. Once I turned airport on or connected an ethernet cable the error would go away.

Check that..

Maybe stupid.. but CISCO VPN Client will give same error whatever, if the network
connection is not active..
But on Tiger, Cisco will not work at the moment this article has release sometime ago.. For between 10.3.x and 10.4.x kernel is very different... even security feature,

This cause MS Virtual PC's virtual switch and cisco VPN client will not woork..
Cisco has release new version even not working properly, but MS not sure yet..

Cheers....

If anybody is interested, we were able to get the cisco vpn client to work with tiger over here. What was the problem? The VPN Administrator had no "domain" entry in the vpn server. Once he filled in this box, then the tiger vpn client worked fine!

Cisco VPN Client 4.6 is working fine for me under Tiger 10.4.2. However, curiously, the installation process created a VISIBLE 'opt' directory at the root level of my hard disk. Anyone else noticed this? I used FileBuddy to make the directory invisible and VPN Client continued to work.

Thread Tag On
 

Not specific to the above, but I am having a different Cisco VPN issue. I have been successfully connecting to Windows 2000 server at work for many moons. Recently, found that I can still connect, but there is no data received inbound. The display on the VPN client (v. 4.6.03) shows 0 bytes in, and many bytes out.

Entourage (v. 11) reads this as not connected, apparently since it cannot get a reply to a server check. Therefore, I can no longer check or send mail through the Exchange account at work.

I have no idea how this happened. The System.log says the following when launching, connecting, then disconnecting the VPN client:

The bit that looks suspicious is the abnormal exiting for the lookupd / launchd routines. Any translation of what that means? Suggestions for further troubleshooting? I did not change any of the connection settings in the VPN client, but, I guess, changed something that affected it. Any help appreciated.

P.S. I also ran a log of the VPN session, but it is all geek to me. If that is helpful, let me know and I will post it.

Is your firewall turned on?

Nope. It is off.

Next question? Could it be some setting on the DSL router? I played with that a bit to enable SSH from work to my home computer, but that is all.

I believe you need to have port 500 traffic forwarded to your Mac through the router. It's firewall is probably blocking your inbound traffic.

OK. Well, any hints on how to do that? My scroll through the DSL menus showed no obvious place to do that.

One other clue: When the VPN is 'connected' I get no web download access. When I disconnect it, the web pages load up like normal. Seems like the VPN is blocking a port that Safari needs. Does that help? I don't ever recall any kind of conflict like that in the past.