On 8 February 2012 12:24, Peter Ross <Peter.Ross@bogen.in-berlin.de> wrote:
Hi all,
we have an older Cisco model as a VPN gateway (Cisco 877).
Until now we could use a Cisco VPN client to connect but now we have people with Windows 7 64 Bit.
Cisco refers to the Cisco AnyConnect VPN Client v2.x for 64 bit systems but that download requires a service contract (which my company does not have).
I am quite outraged by this policy. The router was properly purchased and I expect to use it without restrictions.
Anyway, any help or workaround (does a normal IPSec work, btw?) is welcome.
You could try the package vpnc apt-cache show vpnc gives (under debian) ... Description: Cisco-compatible VPN client vpnc is a VPN client compatible with cisco3000 VPN Concentrator (also known as Cisco's EasyVPN equipment). vpnc runs entirely in userspace and does not require kernel modules except of the tun driver to communicate with the network layer. . It supports most of the features needed to establish connection to the VPN concentrator: MD5 and SHA1 hashes, 3DES and AES ciphers, PFS and various IKE DH group settings. ... I got this working under Linux in a former work place, while other Windows people had much trouble under various Windows (including 64bit) had lots more trouble. Most of my trouble was working out what the local settings of the magic parameters in the /etc/vpnc.conf file matched the local parameters used by the server. Once that was done it worked very reliably. Andrew