The Shrew Soft VPN Client for Unix is a free IPsec Client for FreeBSD, NetBSD, and Linux based operating systems. It can be used to communicate with systems running ipsec-tools. The Unix client utilizes the IPsec kernel support included with the operating system, and comes with the complete Internet Key Exchange daemon and client front end application source code. A Windows version is also available.
| Tags | Systems Administration Networking Security Cryptography Communications |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | POSIX Linux BSD NetBSD FreeBSD Windows |
| Implementation | C++ |
Recent releases


Release Notes: Many critical bugfixes and minor feature enhancements were made. Support was added for Windows 7, both 32- and 64-bit. Compatibility was improved for Cisco gateways and for importing of PCF files.


Release Notes: Negotiation issues with PIX routers older than 6.x were fixed. Support for responding to Cisco load balance messages when communicating with redundant gateway devices was added. A major bug in service control management was corrected.


Release Notes: Diffie Hellman group setup was cleaned up. Portions of the configuration exchange code were rewritten. Non-NUL-terminated string buffers were fixed.


No changes have been submitted for this release.