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ShrewSoft VPN Client

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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.

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License model

  • Free • Proprietary

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Country of Origin

  • US flagUnited States

Platforms

  • Windows
  • Linux  Works on BSD, too. Open source.
  • BSD
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Discontinued

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

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ShrewSoft VPN Client information

  • Developed by

    US flagShrew Soft Inc.

  • Licensing

    Proprietary and Free product.

  • Alternatives

    17 alternatives listed

  • Supported Languages

    • English

Our users have written 3 comments and reviews about ShrewSoft VPN Client, and it has gotten 18 likes

ShrewSoft VPN Client was added to AlternativeTo by DanMan on Mar 6, 2010 and this page was last updated Jul 2, 2021.

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Everyone
Apr 16, 2024
0

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

Thelle Christensen
Apr 27, 2011
0

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
Jun 26, 2010
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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.

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