Gerhard Fiedler wrote:
> Nate Duehr wrote:
> 
> 
>>>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.  
> 
> 
> How do you know they didn't? They did. They tried. No solution. That was a
> few years ago, though, and I don't remember all the details -- only that
> out of 15 or so developers ten had instable system after installing the
> Cisco client that didn't go away by uninstalling it. Not really relevant
> anymore, either, and especially not for Russell :)

Sorry, a bad assumption.  If it was a few years ago, it wasn't the Cisco
VPN concentrator 3000 and client software they bought from another
company, was it?  I had some problems with that software, but it was
just re-branded by Cisco and they immediately saw how bad it was and
end-of-lifed it.  ;-)

Nate

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