Cisco VPN fails after suspend/resume and causes Matlab execution failures
My wife’s new Toshiba Tecra M3 was hobbled by two major Cisco VPN bugs. The first problem is caused by a bad interaction between the Cisco VPN client and the Intel Wi-Fi driver, which fails to work when resuming from a suspend. The second is that the newest Cisco VPN drivers cause random Matlab execution failures while the VPN is connected. I fixed both bugs and thought others might find the solutions useful. However, Windows Explorer still crashes occassionally, so I’m very interested in a new Cisco VPN Client release that fixes both bugs without any side effects. Having to deal with issues like this is a fairly damning indictment of the whole QA process theoretically employed by the 3 biggest tech companies: Cisco, Intel, and Microsoft. Each bug separately was a nightmare to diagnose (who would think at first that the Matlab problems could be caused by the VPN?).
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