Michael McNamara

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Avaya VPN Client Release 10.06.500 for Windows 8

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Avaya has released version 10.06.500 of their VPN client (formerly Contivity Extranet Client) that supports both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows 8.

This single client supports the following operating systems (in both 32-bit and 64-bit versions);

  •     Windows XP
  •     Windows Vista
  •     Windows 7
  •     Windows 8

The following note is included at the top of the release notes;

When upgrading from Windows 7 GA to Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (SP1) users must remove the Avaya VPN Client prior to upgrading to SP1. Once the upgrade to SP1 is complete, reinstall the Avaya VPN Client.

Users who upgrade from a v10.05 or earlier release to v10.06 may receive the following error
dialogue when attempting to establish an IPSec VPN tunnel – “Activation of VPN Adapter Fa iled”. This issue occurs when the AVC filter a dapter is not upgraded correctly during software installation.

Resolved Issues

  • wi00889600 10.06_500 – AVC 10.04.109 Client in SSL Mode Doesn’t Accept Untrusted Self-Signed Cert.
  • wi00982245 10.06_500 – AVG IPsec mobility performance is very low.
  • wi01069664 10.06_500 – AVC Mobility feature fails when moving from a wireless to a wired connection.
  • wi01069666 10.06_500 – Repeated failover between wired and wireless connections may cause mobility failure.
  • wi01100993 10.06_500 – VPN Client – PLAP is unreliable on Windows 8.
  • wi01100994 10.06_500 – VPN Client – OSK (On-Screen Keyboard) does not launch with client.
  • wi01109393 10.06_500 – AVC Client does not work with SSL Protocols TLS1.1 and TLS 1.2.
  • wi01131474 10.06_500 – SSL tunnels may be disconnected due to multicast or host routing table entry changes which should have no impact on tunnel security. Changes to multicast and most host routes are now properly ignored.
  • wi01138381 10.06_500 – The SwapAdapters option added in 10.06.200 does not take into account the registry path for 64-bit systems.

You should refer to the release notes for all the details, including the interoperability issues.

Note: I’m hosting these files from my own servers so please don’t abuse my generosity by hot-linking to them from other sites or by downloading the files dozens of times needlessly.

AVC32-10.06.500.exe (32-bit – Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8)
MD5: 377d84bb29be2abb1197f2f791dce98b
AVC64-10.06.500.exe (64-bit – Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8)
MD5: 24ac65597ce3ce92099940e7a316ad5c

I’m no longer personally using the Avaya VPN Client. These days I utilize the Juniper Network Connect (and Pulse) client when working remotely. So I’m not really in a position to help everyone with their installation problems. In the past I’ve found that the client will work fine on a fresh OS installation the majority of the time when it wouldn’t work on that same machine prior to the re-imaging.

Cheers!

It’s the networks fault #13

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It’s December and the Christmas season is upon us yet again. This year it seems the amount of marketing and sales messages hitting my Inbox is at an all time high. I love NewEgg just as mush as the next techie but we’re going a little over the top guys with multiple messages per day. I have some exciting news that I hope to be able to share with everyone next month, well it’s exciting for me but probably won’t matter to many others.

Articles

It’s been mostly dead all day… by Amy Engineer – Amy recalls for us her trials and tribulations as she battled with a demonic Cisco 7945 IP phone. I’ve had many similar adventures but with Avaya IP phones, so I feel like I can really relate to Amy’s experiences. I can’t begin to count the number of times that Philippe JOUNIN’s Tftpd32 has saved my bacon.

Minimal Kickstart File for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, CentOS 6, Oracle Linux 6 Virtual Machines by Bob Plankers – These days I wouldn’t personally be caught dead not using kickstart files but if you haven’t taken the time yet to build one yourself or still don’t know how they work, Bob provides a great tutorial with all the explanation and detail you’ll need to be successful.

8 Things I Have Learned From 20 Years of Data Networking by Greg Ferro – Greg provides some wonderful insights, beyond the technical realm, to help everyone who’s involved with Information Technology. I’m personally working on step 8, Work on Personal Productivity. I’m a very productive individual and I’m very organized but I often feel like I spend too much time bringing the two together so I’m working on my personal work flows trying to optimize how I work to save time and energy.

Installing the Junos EZ Library – Easy SDN Part 1 and Getting Busy With the Junos EZ Library by John Herbert – If you are at all interested in how to interface with Junos utilizing the Junos EZ library written by Jeremy Schulman then you need to check out these post by John. He quite literally takes you through the entire process and shows you how to get it working. I just recently started working with a Juniper EX-2200C so I might have to try it out myself.

Software Releases

The SNMP problems I wrote about in the post entitled, Avaya Ethernet Routing Switch 4800 – Part 2, have been resolved in software release 5.6.4 for the Avaya Ethernet Routing Switch 4000 series. The problem was identified in the release notes as follows, “Snmpgetnext for if Index, ifInOctets and ifType returned incorrect ifInOctets data (WI01118979)”

Let me just take a second to point out two new features in software release 5.7;

EDM inactivity time out
A session becomes inactive if there is no interaction with the EDM interface for more than 15 minutes. After the session becomes inactive, you must login again with your user name and password. Using the ACLI command edm inactivity-timeout, you can configure the time period for which an EDM session remains active.

Thank god they’ve finally made this timer configurable!!!

FastEthernet replaced with Ethernet
The keyword FastEthernet is replaced with Ethernet in all the ACLI commands. For compliance, the old commands containing FastEthernet keyword are hidden, and you can configure using the keyword

I can only tell you the looks I’d get from junior engineers trying to explain to them the differences between Cisco’s IOS, NXOS and then Avaya’s ACLI. They would tell me, “but it’s not a Fast Ethernet interface”, and I would tell them, “your right but you still need to use FastEthernet in your CLI input.”

Cheers!

It’s the networks fault #12

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In my last ITNF post I mentioned that I was giving a presentation on Data Loss Prevention specifically as it relates to healthcare. The presentation went well but there was some shock and disbelief from a large portion of the audience in some of the numbers I quoted. I hope to release the slides, sanitized, later this week.

Articles

How and Why to Quit Feedburner Safely by Greg Ferro – Greg provides some pretty detailed instructions on how to successful migrate safely from Google’s Feedburner. I really like the minimalist design of Greg’s personal site and the Genesis based theme he’s using.

Wi-Fi Site-Surveying 101 by Andrew vonNagy – Andrew shares his insights into wireless site surveys. I personally done my fair share of site surveys usually utilizing tools from Fluke including the AirCheck and AirMagnet.

Using Notepad++ Vertical Selection for Mass Changes by Paul Stewart – Paul shares a very helpful tip for selecting text vertically, instead of just a block. And then performing a search-n-replace with some regex. Here’s my equivalent of Paul’s output,

awk '{ print "interface " $1 "\r shutdown\r"}' input.txt > output.txt

Show 158 – Avaya – Software Defined Data Centre & Fabric Connect by Packet Pushers (Greg Ferro, Ethan Banks and Paul Unbehagen) – Avaya sponsored a podcast with the Packet Pushers to talk about how Shortest Path Bridging fits in the Data Center and how it can interact with OpenStack.

How Not to DDoS Your Former Employer by Brian Krebs – I really enjoy following Brian on his journey into the dark interwebs.

Brian’s story reminded me of a similar experience I had in my first job. A few students at the college where I was the system administrator had written a fake login program and had it running on about a dozen dumb terminals. It would record any username and password entered and would then logout of the system and give the user a message making you think you had fat fingered the password. When they were called into the office they all had quite a smirk on their faces. They claimed they didn’t know anything and sure enough their accounts were empty. I asked them if they had ever seen what a tape backup reel looks like so I showed them the tape backs from the previous night and asked them to guess what we had found on it.

Software Releases

There was one fix that caught my eye regarding the following;

  • On ERS55xx when the UPS was switched from AC to battery, all PoE ports went down (wi01112133)

I’ve discussed this problem with a number of people and we were all lead to believe this was an issue with the line-interactive UPS systems that we were using. I was shocked to see this in the release notes. I haven’t personally tested this yet but I need to-do so sometime soon.

Cheers!

Avaya VPN Client Release 10.06.301 for Windows 8

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Avaya has released version 10.06.301 of their VPN client (formerly Contivity Extranet Client) that supports both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows 8.

This single client supports the following operating systems (in both 32-bit and 64-bit versions);

  •     Windows XP
  •     Windows Vista
  •     Windows 7
  •     Windows 8

Resolved Issues

  • wi01107642 – SSL Mode Tunnels Do Not Disconnect.

You should refer to the release notes for all the details, including the interoperability issues.

Note: I’m hosting these files from my own servers so please don’t abuse my generosity by hot-linking to them from other sites or by downloading the files dozens of times needlessly.

AVC32-10.06.301.exe (32-bit – Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8)
MD5: d256bdd829119dbb05beaf5fd9378aea
AVC64-10.06.301.exe (64-bit – Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8)
MD5: f7266ea28723decf6d6ead3ba7009134

I’m no longer personally using the Avaya VPN Client. These days I utilize the Juniper Network Connect (and Pulse) client when working remotely. So I’m not really in a position to help everyone with their installation problems. In the past I’ve found that the client will work fine on a fresh OS installation the majority of the time when it wouldn’t work on that same machine prior to the re-imaging.

Cheers!

Avaya VPN Client Release 10.06.300 for Windows 8

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Avaya has released version 10.06.300 of their VPN client (formerly Contivity Extranet Client) that supports both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows 8.

This single client supports the following operating systems (in both 32-bit and 64-bit versions);

  •     Windows XP
  •     Windows Vista
  •     Windows 7
  •     Windows 8

Resolved Issues

  • wi01066387 Removal and re-installation of the VPN Client did not restore VPN adapter configurations (such as MTU) to system defaults.
  • wi01069254 AVC SSL Tunnel mode may randomly fail to retrieve the banner.
  • wi01076085 The Avaya VPN Client was previously unable to handle fragmented UDP frames resulting in data loss. This functionality has been added.
  • wi01082043 VPN Client Does Not Send UDP Keepalives In NAT Environments.
  • wi01086545 Manual Removal Instructions to Repair Broken Windows 8 Installation.
  • wi01090553 VPN Client Route Monitoring for SSL Tunnel Mode is inconsistent or not working as expected.
  • wi01090556 The VPN Client disconnects a user due to detected route table changes (via route monitoring) if the client machine’s local area connections renew their DHCP lease while a tunnel is active – and the DHCP server returns a default gateway value (normal in most environments).
  • wi01105916 Changes introduced by wi01059319 in 10.06.200 may result in the client returning error “General System Problem.” This has been resolved.
  • wi01090812 AVC/SSL connection drops while roaming when original metric lower than VPN adapter.

You should refer to the release notes for all the details, including the interoperability issues.

Note: I’m hosting these files from my own servers so please don’t abuse my generosity by hot-linking to them from other sites or by downloading the files dozens of times needlessly. Since May 5, 2013 the Avaya VPN Client downloads have accounted for ~ 36.8 GB of traffic from this site.

AVC32-10.06.300.exe (32-bit – Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8)
MD5: 8e1d5f590022cd92d9d9f0636c063114
AVC64-10.06.300.exe (64-bit – Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8)
MD5: 0eed78b62efad94da8e9c9d6f070cf49

I’m no longer personally using the Avaya VPN Client. These days I utilize the Juniper Network Connect (and Pulse) client when working remotely. So I’m not really in a position to help everyone with their installation problems. In the past I’ve found that the client will work fine on a fresh OS installation the majority of the time when it wouldn’t work on that same machine prior to the re-imaging.

Cheers!

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