Gerhard Fiedler wrote:
> Nate Duehr wrote:
> 
> 
>>Cisco VPN client - Available (or equivalents that mimic Cisco's IPSEC 
>>with add-ons protocol) for just about every OS out there, in some 
>>fashion.  Fast, works, super-reliable.  Requires the use of a Cisco 
>>Firewall on the far-end.  Expensive.
> 
> 
> FWIW, installing the Cisco VPN client was one of the few installations that
> could almost with certainty be blamed for a Windows system so unstable that
> I had to reinstall. Since I wasn't the only one with that problem, in the
> end we could convince the client to set up a PPTP access...

Never had that problem on at least six machines, so far.

Cisco's tech support is excellent -- someone should have called them
when that happened.  They probably would have been able to fix it or
recommend a solution.

(They're not perfect, but Cisco is still a customer-focused company --
people complain about their prices, but they do support their product,
unlike many of the other networking product vendors.  I've seen Cisco
techs help people who should have never been anywhere near a network or
switch system design (no training, no clue) through getting it set up
and working -- not only working, but set up correctly with reasonable
settings for security-related items, etc... all in a day's work for
them, I guess.)

Nate
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