Topic: VPN Tool

[steve1084]

I have found that a great VPN tool is the Draytek Smart VPN Client for overcomming issues related to ip address alocation. 

I get all of my clients to use this tool and it works a treat and means there are no more issues like same ip wont connect etc.

Different versions are available for various Operating systems http://draytek.com.au/downloads.php

A simple and very affective tool

Steve

[peterhocking]

I assume that this just works with Draytek routers?

[steve1084]

I assume that this just works with Draytek routers?

No Not at all

This tool is totaly independant of the Draytek router.  IE it works on any system and has nothing to do with routers of any type.

It is what it is.  A tool for connecting your computer to a VPN connection be it a SME server VPN or a Draytek Router VPN if matters NOT.

Smart VPN Tool.

Install on your PC and use it to connect to any VPN connection.  Can be used to connect to many different types of VPN connections.  Very handy and works fantastic.

Please try and see for yourself

Steve

[Franco]

...no support for Vista? 

[e[nt]e]

...no support for Vista? 

Read the OS column properly?

In the fifth row there is this:

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Smart VPN Client    27/06/2007    3.2.6    MS-Vista    All Model    ZIP
regards
Niklas

[Franco]

Read the OS column properly?

In the fifth row there is this:

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Smart VPN Client    27/06/2007    3.2.6    MS-Vista    All Model    ZIP
regards
Niklas

Did you try it?
You should!

[imcintyre]

Will this resolve the problem that occurs when my current address e.g. 192.168.1.*** and the network I want to connect to has the same range?

[e[nt]e]

Did you try it?
You should!

Sorry my post shouldn't be rude. No i didn't try it as I don't use Vista.
But if you tried it and had a problem with it maybe you could explain your problem and do not just post a question which obtrudes the thought that you need some help.

regards
Niklas

[Franco]

Sorry my post shouldn't be rude. No i didn't try it as I don't use Vista.

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[Franco]

Will this resolve the problem that occurs when my current address e.g. 192.168.1.*** and the network I want to connect to has the same range?

No, that is a conflicting problem.

[CharlieBrady]

Will this resolve the problem that occurs when my current address e.g. 192.168.1.*** and the network I want to connect to has the same range?

No, no VPN technology will solve that problem. Some very fancy NAT might be able to. But by far the best would be for you to renumber one of the networks.

[imcintyre]

Yes, that is what I have always done, I was just trying to get a clearer idea of what this tool did. I was working from the comment;

for overcomming issues related to ip address alocation.

I looked at the website and I could not understand it so thought I'd ask. Didn't want to get into the middle of the other behaviour.

[chris burnat]

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[steve1084]

No, no VPN technology will solve that problem. Some very fancy NAT might be able to. But by far the best would be for you to renumber one of the networks.

Yes It does Overcome this issue.  It is a SMART VPN TOOL that does infact have very fancy Nat abilities to overcome these issues.  If your IP and the Server IP address range are the same then this tool will Fix this issue.

It installes its own virtual Lan connector and uses this to identify and modify IP address range to fix this issue.

Steve

[CharlieBrady]

It is a SMART VPN TOOL that does infact have very fancy Nat abilities to overcome these issues.

Interesting.

[steve1084]

Smart VPN Tool is available for windows. All windows platforms 95,98,ME,2000,XP,Vista.


Smart VPN Client 18/08/2006 3.2.6 MS-Windows All Model http://www.i-lan.com.au/downloads/tools/VPN/3.2.6/VPN.zip
Smart VPN Client 27/06/2007 3.2.6 MS-Vista All Model http://www.i-lan.com.au/downloads/tools/VPN/3.2.6/VPN_for_Vista.zip

Sorry not available for Linux or osX desktops yet but I assume that most people connecting to SME VPN would be doing so from a Windows Box anyway

Steve

[imcintyre]

Thanks for the explanation, I could see that this could be very handy.

[Franco]

I had downloaded this to my SME. Today after the scan, clam found it to have a trojan:
Trojan.LdPinch-2612 FOUND

[steve1084]

I had downloaded this to my SME. Today after the scan, clam found it to have a trojan:
Trojan.LdPinch-2612 FOUND

This is actualy fulse.  There is no Trojen in this tool.  If clam found something (I doubt it very much) its a fulse positive.

Sorry this comment brings up an old topic.  But I have been away for a while and had not previously seen this comment.

The tool works. end of story

Steve

[Daniel B.]

having it working doesn't mean there's no trojan. Well, it may be a false positive, but it'd be interesting to scan it with some other AV tools, just to be sure.

[Franco]

All I can say is that I trust Clam more than I trust this guy or the company from where the file was downloaded.
The files actually have been changed, I don't have the originals anymore to compare, but maybe there was something suspicious...

[CharlieBrady]

All I can say is that I trust Clam more than I trust this guy or the company from where the file was downloaded.

I agree with Franco.

[steve1084]

I agree with Franco.

Draytek are the providers of the tool

Draytek are one of the major suppliers of networking equipment in the world.
I dare say a lot of sme users are using Draytek modems or routers. The tool was provided by draytek to its modem users world wide to address the very issues that many people have with vpn's using the same ip range.
There is NO TROGEN. I test various anti virus tools regularly and have used 6 different antivirus programs in the past 5 months and not one came up with an issue concerning the Draytek VPN Tool.
The tool has been around for years, if there was an issue with the tool they would have stopped hosting it on there website and would not have continued its development.
www.draytek.com
Its in there interest to ensure its trogen free.  Draytek are the NUMBER #1 manufacturer of Network and DSL modems throughout Asia and are becomming very popular around the world for there quality of equipment. 

There is NO TROGEN.

Redownload and retest with multiple antivirus. and if you get a fulse positive tell both draytek and the virus company.  Give a copy of the program to the virus company becouse your comments are just crap.

Next you will be telling me that antivirus programs never give fulse positive's.

[CharlieBrady]

Next you will be telling me that antivirus programs never give fulse positive's.

Neither Franco nor I said that. We just said that we trust clamd more than some company and some person that we've never had dealings with.

Relax a little, OK?

[steve1084]

Neither Franco nor I said that. We just said that we trust clamd more than some company and some person that we've never had dealings with.

Relax a little, OK?

OK

I have been using this tool for the past 2 1/2 years and have all of my clients using it and NOT one has ever commented that there antivirus has found a trogen in the tool so I can only suspect that somebody is telling lies becouse they dont want people to use a tool that they cant believe would work.  A tool that means people dont have to pay tecks for there time to adjust there entire networks IP addres range to fix what this tool can do so simmply.

Please Franco do a comprehensive test of this tool, talk to draytek and to any virus company that is giving you a strange result.  I can see this tool as being truely helpfull to so many sme users and your comments Franco are just beyond me.  Come back in 2 weeks and tell us how the comprehensive testing has gone and what response did you get from the various comany's.  Thats what I would like to see.

I know there is NO TROGEN but Franco everyone here seems to trust you, so that means I need you to do a proper job so that people who use SME can have the benefit of such an amasingly good tool.

Thanks
Steve

[steve1084]

I have just sent of an email to draytek asking them to have a look at this issue.

I will post any comments I get back from them.

Thanks
Steve

[groutley]

FYI,
  I have scanned the current windows version file Smart+VPN+Client+V3.6.3.zip
downloaded from http://www.draytek.com/user/SupportDLUtility.php#
with Symantec, spybot, Adaware and Malwarebytes
and the file is clean in every case.
 If clam doesn't like the file I suggest it is definitely a false positive.

[Franco]

FYI,
  I have scanned the current windows version file Smart+VPN+Client+V3.6.3.zip
downloaded from http://www.draytek.com/user/SupportDLUtility.php#
with Symantec, spybot, Adaware and Malwarebytes
and the file is clean in every case.
 If clam doesn't like the file I suggest it is definitely a false positive.

...then at least we know the latest version is good.
The infected version was 3.2.6.