Shrew wont connect after windows 8.1 upgrade

Question

I am using Shrew for my VPN connection on Windows 8.0 successfully but it stopped working properly after I upgraded to Windows 8.1. It connects to VPN ok but I cannot access anything on the network. After several attempts it disconnects. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling with no affect.

Any help wild be appreciated. Thanks, Dave

Answer 1

What version are you using?

When 8.1 was pushed to me here, my copy of Shrew 2.2.2 Professional stopped connecting entirely, with a "tunnel disabled" message (there were 3 messages, that's the only one I can remember). It also hosed my Virtual Machine networking.

To fix, I uninstalled my VMs (VirtualBox, etc.), rebooted, re-installed Shrew, rebooted, and then reintalled VMs. Now everything is working correctly.

HTH!