Shrew Soft VPN Client 2.1.2

The Shrew Soft VPN Client is a free IPSEC Client for Windows 2000 and Windows XP. It can be used for communicating with a Open Source Operating system running ipsec-tools to provide an alternative to expensive commercial VPN solutions.
While this software does include advanced features such as Split Tunneling, Split DNS, Nat Traversal, IKE Fragmentation, Packet Pre Fragmentation, Dead Peer Detection, Hybrid XAuth and automatic client configuration, it is still missing some options that are available in the more popular commercial products.
For example, if your remote access needs include support for VPN enabled domain login or stateful client side firewall, this software may not be a good fit for your environment.
Main features:
Firewall Traversal Options
￭ NAT Traversal ( RFC & Draft 00-04 versions )
￭ NAT Keep Alive
￭ IKE Fragmentation

Authentications Methods
￭ Hybrid RSA + XAuth
￭ Mutual RSA + XAuth
￭ Mutual PSK + XAuth
￭ Mutual RSA
￭ Mutual PSK

Identification Types
￭ ASN1DN
￭ FQDN
￭ UFQDN
￭ Address
￭ Key Identifier

Exchange Modes
￭ Main
￭ Aggressive
￭ Configuration ( push or pull )
￭ Quick
￭ Informational

Phase1 Ciphers
￭ AES
￭ Blowfish
￭ 3DES
￭ CAST
￭ DES

Phase1 Hash Algorithms
￭ MD5
￭ SHA1

Phase2 Transforms
￭ ESP-AES
￭ ESP-Blowfish
￭ ESP-3DES
￭ ESP-CAST
￭ ESP-DES

Phase2 HMAC Algorithms
￭ HMAC-MD5
￭ HMAC-SHA1

Phase2 Options
￭ PFS is supported
￭ Tunnel mode is supported
￭ Transport mode is not supported
￭ Compression is not supported

Basic Configuration Exchange Attributes
￭ Banner
￭ Address
￭ Netmask
￭ WINS Server
￭ DNS Server

Advanced Configuration Exchange Attributes
￭ DNS Default Domain
￭ Login Banner
￭ Split Network Include List
￭ Split Network Exclude List
￭ Split DNS Domain List
￭ PFS DH Group

System requirements:
- Latest Service Packs Installed.

Enhancements:
- Update the NSIS installer scripts and inf files to allow for XP 64bit installs.
- Also add builds for a AMD64 version of the virtual network driver.
- This platform support still isnt complete due to class installer issues.