ShrewSoft VPN Client

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Cost / License

Free
Proprietary

Application typeApplication types

Origin

United States

Alerts

Discontinued

Platforms

Windows
Linux
BSD

Alternatives

Discontinued

Last release July 2013. See https://www.shrew.net/home

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Comments and Reviews

Everyone

CommentApr 16, 2024

Unfortunately does not work with Windows 11 anymore, breaks network functionality instead.

Thelle Christensen

CommentApr 27, 2011

Didn't work on my computer(running 32-bit Windows 7) for reasons unknown.. and I'm therefore back to Cisco VPN Client..

I_shall_comment

CommentJun 26, 2010

Phase2 Options

PFS is supported
Tunnel mode is supported
Transport mode is not supported
Compression is not supported

What is ShrewSoft VPN Client?

The Shrew Soft VPN Client is a free IPsec Remote Access VPN Client for both Windows 2000, XP, Vista and Windows 7 operating systems ( x86 and amd64 versions ) and for FreeBSD, NetBSD and Linux based operating systems. It was originally developed to provide secure communications between mobile Windows hosts and open source VPN gateways that utilize standards compliant software such as ipsec-tools, OpenSWAN, FreeSWAN, StrongSWAN, isakmpd. It now offers many of the advanced features only found in expensive commercial software solutions and provides compatibility for VPN appliances produced by vendors such as Cisco, Juniper, Checkpoint, Fortinet, Netgear, Linksys, Zywall and many others. The Linux version supports most of the features availalble in the Windows VPN Client version with the exception of those which are not cross platform compatible.