After my recent laptop upgrade, I bacame a [forced?] owner of Windows Vista 64-bit OS. Well, of course I didn’t waste any time and multi-booted the puppy with Ubuntu and OSX (yes, that’s Mac OSX). Long story short and while trying to install the Cisco VPN onto my windows slice, I discovered that Cisco does not support the 64-bit OS, and worse, “has no current plans to provide support” either! Oh sure, they’re holding out the upgrade for the upcoming 128 or 256 bit OSs; I mean, seriously?!

Anywho, for us disgruntled Cisco VPN users, there’s some good news after all: We have the OSS community to save us. If you don’t want to take the dive into installing another OS (I recommend giving it a try, at least), download cygwin and install vpnc on it. It works rather nicely with the expensive and now-seemingly-defunct Cisco hardware.