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RE: Best VPN Appliance
From: "John Lightfoot" <jlightfoot () gmail com>
Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2010 13:54:51 -0500
Can anyone tell me how to get the beta 64 bit client? Thanks. -----Original Message----- From: Scott Howard [mailto:scott () doc net au] Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2010 12:47 PM To: Blomberg, Orin P (DOH) Cc: nanog () nanog org Subject: Re: Best VPN Appliance On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 11:50 AM, Blomberg, Orin P (DOH) <Orin.Blomberg () doh wa gov> wrote:
Thanks for the information. I am just going on what we have been formally told by our onsite Cisco engineers on several occasions. It may be that they were misinformed, or that they are trying to make the sell for AnyConnect Licensing, but I had been going with the facts I had.
It was neither, at least not specifically on the side of your engineers. Cisco had absolutely no plans to release a 64-bit IPSec client - not because they couldn't (they have had a working version for some time), but because they have been trying to kill off the product for years to try and migrate customers to their newer products (ie, AnyConnect). So your Cisco engineers were absolutely correct - at the time - in saying that there would never be a 64 bit version. Obviously it seems they have finally buckled to customer pressure (!) and release a 64 bit version, which is good news for everyone except whoever's job in Cisco it was to EOL the IPSec code. It's unfortunate that they didn't take the obvious approach and put IPSec into AnyConnect when it first came out, which would have avoided all of these issues. (I used to work for Cisco in the Security Technology Business Unit, but I don't any more so I'm obviously not speaking on behalf of anyone other than possibly myself!) Scott.
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