iPhone and Cisco VPN

Ryan,

I think the key is to have a transport-mode SA available. All of the SAs that come standard on the Cisco VPN server are tunnel-mode.

The specifics of what I got working for phase 2: ESP/SHA/HMAC-160 + AES-128. However, I suspect that 3DES will work fine if you have a tunnel-mode version.

Now my problem is that I can't authenticate - even if I create a local user with an all-numeric password, and set the group authentication mode to Internal, I still get an authentication failure. To be able to get into production with this I need to get SDI authentication working but when that wasn't working I thought I'd try with Internal, and that also doesn't work 😟

*Other companies make compatible VPN clients for Cisco's VPN Concentrator. See the amazing work done by Equinux. That would be VPN Tracker. I emailed them asking if they could write a VPN client for the iPhone and got this response*

"we'd love to, but Apple has its own plans. VPN Tracker is deeply embedded in
Mac OS X, and while we could work with the current version of the iPhone's OS,
we'd risk that the next software update breaks the whole thing. At the moment,
we're waiting for Apple to change its attitude towards 3rd party applications
for their mobile devices."

*They WANT to make one but Apple won't let third parties develop software for the iPhone. I cannot believe how dumb they are about this. The lack of third party software is withholding countless numbers of sales... mine included.*

i need it too.
Apple should knows,how many students use the Iphone,and how many schools use a Cisco VPN for WIFI.

i hope it comes soon>

Hi,

I am from Germany and me and two fellow students were eagerly waiting for the iphone, but without Cisco VPN Support, which is required for our university network, it is rather useless and personally I will buy a sub-notebook instead and keep my old cellphone (saves a lot of money due to incredible high prices for the t-mobile provider contract over here...)

We want to use our iPhones on the campus!
PLEASE Apple build in Cisco VPN support in the next firmware update. Or however it could work.
Then there is no need to buy the sub-notebook.

regards,
PG

Yes, please support Cisco VPN. I had the president of my company convinced to get an iPhone until we found out we can't connect via VPN. I had no problem selling the "idea" of buying the iPhone for all upper management until that roadblock. And there is no working around it... it's Cisco VPN or bust.

Would it really be that hard to add this? If other companies can produce Cisco-compatible clients then surely Apple can put it to the iPhone! I want to use my university wifi...

We use Cisco VPN at our university and despite this I have been happily using the iPhone's VPN with this system. I set up a PPTP VPN turning off the RSA SecurID and setting the encryption level none, authenticating using my login and password - the same as I usually use for the Cisco VPN. The server I copied from the Cisco VPN settings file. This works fine for me and allows my iPhone to work normally on campus.

Cheers

I had to get this working recently, posted a how to: http://www.linickx.com/archives/352/cisco-vpn-3k-config-for-iphone

My company an I are in the market for the new version of the iPhone, but I have to say I cannot purchase these until a few things are sorted. A working "Apple" approved Cisco VPN client is a absoulte MUST (Apple really need to sort this out). 3G (HSDPA) Version as EDGE *****. I currently have a WM6 device and it rocks over HSDPA, getting over a MB/Sec so I am not going backwards. The company I work for are really interested in the iPhone but are very diligent with purchasing as at the moment it really is not feasable, due to lack of apps and third party involvement.

Please Apple, get your device sorted otherwise we'll be staying with Windows Mobile Devices.

Perhaps Cisco could create a VPN client application when the application SDK comes out?

now i have a question,.. i did setup VPN on my home computer and i can connect from my IPhone via VPN to my network ..... but now what? what else can i do no or what else can i connect to on my home computer?????