Cisco response to Cisco VPN Client under XP

["Kayne Ian (Softlab)" <Ian.Kayne () softlab co uk>]

Hey all,
        About 2 weeks ago I posted a mail re: the Cisco VPN client telling
users to disable driver signing. The mail made it's way to Cisco, below is
the response I received. Just FYI in case you're interested.

Ian Kayne
Technical Specialist - IT Solutions
Softlab Ltd - A BMW Company


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pete Davis [mailto:psd () cisco com]
> Sent: 25 April 2002 00:06
> To: Ian.Kayne () softlab co uk
> Subject: RE: (Case #???????) 
>
>
> Ian,
>
> We attempted to tell people to ignore the messages in the 
> past, but rather
> than ignoring them, they would accidentally say NO to one of 
> them and cause
> the client to break on their machine, thus opening up support 
> cases - in
> addition, they would receive annoying warnings every time 
> various network
> binding activity happened on their machine. After receiving 
> complaints for a
> year about this, we finally decided to do something until MS 
> would sign our
> driver. The solution to problem is that v3.6 (release in August) will
> include signed drivers and this will be removed.
>
> Best Regards,
> -pete








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