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. Thanks Peter
Peter Ross <Peter.Ross@bogen.in-berlin.de> wrote:
Anyway, any help or workaround (does a normal IPSec work, btw?) is welcome.
IPSec should work if you configure it properly on both sides. The router probably only supports IKEv1, so for a Linux client you would want OpenSwan. There's no Windows in my life so I'm not in a position to comment on that.
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
On Wed, 8 Feb 2012 03:13:59 PM Andrew Worsley wrote:
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. Hi Peter I use vpnc to connect to my work's cisco but your email prompted an experiment. I do have a Windows 7 64bit box my son uses for gaming. I download the Cisco client from work and it works well. Then I download the vpn client from http://www.shrew.net/download/vpn/vpn-client-2.1.7-release.exe imported the cisco preference file into it and it worked as well. So a couple of options for you.
Cheers Nic
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