Upcoming Cisco VPN Client Changes

The descriptions of the Cisco VPN Client contained in this chapter are based on version 3.x of the Cisco VPN Client. Release 4.0.2.A is currently available.

The first thing you will notice is that the Microsoft Windows Start menu has changed for the client. The options for Certificate Manager and Log Viewer are gone and the name of the main application has changed from VPN Dialer to the more intuitive name of VPN Client. The remaining options on the Start menu are Help, Set MTU, and Uninstall VPN Client.

Other new features of Release 4.0 of Cisco VPN Client are described in the following sections.

Virtual Adapter

To help solve protocol incompatibility problems, Cisco has included a virtual adapter in the new ...

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