iPhone and Cisco VPN

I second that!

I agree... and also add Enterprise grade WPA2 support and Cisco LEAP support!

my iphone works on my school's VPN.

Works for me too. We're using the Cisco VPN 3000 Concentrator.

I had to configure the VPN server to use the "Base Group" since the iPhone InternetConnect doesn't let you specify the Group Name.

After some configuration changes and testing with InternetConnect on Mac OS X (10.4.10), the VPN Server now accepts connections from the iPhone.

Granted, the password-entry is still messed up (it brings up a numeric keypad instead of an alphanumeric).

-DDV

My school's IT people are evil:

"Hello Dominic-

The iPhone is not a supported platform. Currently, there are no plans to support the iPhone on GWireless.

Sincerely,

STS"

GWireless is our wireless network. We use the Cisco VPN client to log in on PCs and Macs. I've tried and tried to get the VPN to work using OS X's VPN client, but no amount of settings-tinkering proved fruitful.

I'd be happy with browser-based authentication at this point!

Someone--Cisco, Apple, GWU––needs to fix this! I understand the need for a secure network in the middle of a city like Washington, but this is maddening.

MacBook Pro Mac OS X (10.4.10)

My School has a Cisco VPN and we have the same problem. We cannot configure the iPhone to connect to the VPN. A major problem since I have exchange accounts in my school. when I mailed the school authorities, they said

"It is not guaranteed that the connection will work for your iPhone. The only VPN client we use and support is CISCO and there had not been a release of this client for handheld/mobile devices."

Oh, for a quick update!

while I was doing more researching on the issue purely for curiosity (as the cause is clear), it struck me...with what Apple and Cisco had on the naming fight back then, don't expect Cisco comes out to help all the iPhone users any time soon...

NOTE, the contested issue between Cisco and Apple was that Cisco wanted Apple to support "open interfaces". It was never made clear exactly what those interfaces were, but the point being that Cisco would rather integrate with Apple than compete with Apple.

Cisco does provide a GNU/Linux VPN client and there are open source implementations as well if... Apple would allow (assist!) 3rd parties to develop software for the iPhone.

I think the "contested" issue the previous poster meant was that Cisco claimed to own the rights to the name "iPhone"...

me too. I need to log in my work network from an outside network. Please enable cisco vpn support. Also, please enable wi-gi 802.1x EAP authentication support too!

I have been trying to use the base group to allow my iPhone and Built-in VPN Mac client users to connect to our concentrator with no avail. It looks from the debugs that its failing Phase 2. Any assistance/points on your config that you could offer?

Does iPhone has any plan to support Cisco VPN? Please consider to add this feature seriously. I think this will boost business user's adaptation.

Could you say more about the configuration on the VPN 3000? After setting up the Base Group to have a shared secret and enabling L2TP/IPSEC, I was able to get past the phase 1 negotiation with the iphone client, but according to the VPN server's log, IKE would reject any SA that was configured on the concentrator, from 3DES-MD5 to AES128-SHA. It never even seemed to get to the password phase.

All right, my school posted this notice a while back. I want to let my school know that it's an iPhone...not a bomb. Anyway, the statement:

"The newly released Apple iPhone is a consumer-oriented device and is not designed to function securely inside an enterprise environment. Any GW Faculty or Staff considering its purchase should be aware that it will not, at least in the near term, be supported at GW for work/business use.

ISS will continue to monitor Apple and AT&T's progress with this product roll-out and will revisit supporting the iPhone as the technology matures.

We thank you for your patience as we continue to strive to provide the GW community with safe and secure technology features that meet your daily business needs."