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Snow Leopard and built-in CISCO VPN access

Hello,

FYI:

I just installed Mac OS X 10.6 and it seems faster than Leopard, in all I'm very happy with it.
I was also happy to hear that CISCO VPN was built-in...

I've tried that, however it seems that only "IPSec over TCP" Transport is allowed, making our connection to the external office impossible.
We need "IPSec over UDP (NAT/PAT)" which is only available with the CISCO VPN Client.

After reinstalling "CISCO VPN Client 4.9.01.0180 " (since Snow Leopard Installer turns off the CISCO client) login to our external office worked again...uffff..

Hopefully this will be fixed in the next Snow Leopard Update....

Or maybe someone knows if there's a CISCO VPN Settings to change to "IPSec over UDP (NAT/PAT) file on Snow Leopard ?

Thanks,

gilcel

iMac 24", Mac OS X (10.6), 2.16GHz / 4GB RAM

Posted on Aug 28, 2009 10:12 AM

54 replies

Oct 16, 2009 7:35 AM in response to andyGoodwin

Just wanted to give a belated thanks to andyGoodwin. That BETA VPN client helped tide me over until I can get ahold of our IS department and get them to update the Mac version of the AnyConnect client.

Oct 22, 2009 1:54 PM in response to Forrest

Possible alternative to re-installing the Cisco client:

<pre>
sudo kextload /System/Library/Extensions/CiscoVPN.kext
</pre>

(This idea came from: http://kb.wisc.edu/helpdesk/page.php?id=12055 .)

Somez

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5 points

Nov 10, 2009 1:50 AM in response to gilcelli

Hello everyone!

I was experiencing random kernel panics after installing the Cisco VPN client, so I deleted it and installed the latest AnyConnect (2.4.0202) wich gives me a window with an IP address fileld and a "select" button. I type the VPN IP address, press enter and I get an error message: "Connection Attempt failed: Hots is unreachable". And that's all. I can't enter password, not even import a .pcf configuration file... Don't how to solve this. Can someone help me?

Nov 12, 2009 8:22 PM in response to foertter

I have the same issue. I can connect to my company's Cisco VPN, and when I do I see the correct DNS and search domain in the DNS tab of the advanced preferences for the VPN connection, but they don't appear to be getting picked up by the OS. To confirm this, I did "host machine.domain.com" and got a not found, but "host machine.domain.com 10.201.0.5" returned the right information (10.201.0.5 being the internal DNS being returned by the VPN). Similarly, "host machine 10.201.0.5" returned not found. So clearly the VPN is picking up the right information, but the OS is not getting it from the VPN. I tried moving the VPN connection to the top of the service order, but to no effect.

Nov 20, 2009 9:24 AM in response to cipherwar

It works fine until it causes a kernel panic. Which it does, regularly.

Nov 30, 2009 9:21 AM in response to Peter Wisnovsky

I have a slight variation of the problem, I manage to configure the VPN client without any problem, and I can connect to my office from home, but as soon as I disconnect all my interfaces are locked, and all I can do is reboot the machine solve the issue.

Has anyone had this issue?

Thanks to Robs' suggestion I managed to get the vpn client going once more, bit this is quite annoying and I seem to look forward to some kernel panics

rdstone

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Feb 4, 2010 12:35 PM in response to gilcelli

I might have missed this somewhere in the thread, so forgive me if that is the case. We are quickly moving our Macs (Intel anyway) to 10.6 and using the built in Cisco VPN. The only time I have had trouble with it, the symptoms were as you all have described: show's connection, pulling IP - but no access.

I tested the same Mac with the actual Cisco client. Upon launching, it generated a dialog informing me that Back to My Mac had to be disabled. I agreed (it was an unmanaged Mac). I smoked the Cisco client and tried the built-in. It works great now.

tsarna

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Feb 6, 2010 5:48 AM in response to Dogcow-Moof

William Kucharski wrote:
It's not difficult at all; ask your IT department for a copy. They have the support contracts with Cisco and can login and download the client directly from Cisco.

Ha! That assumes a) one's IT department is helpful b) they don't immediately hang up when you mention the word "Mac". c) that if they do support the Mac, they won't tell you to use the 2 year old copy they have online which is the latest they've "qualified" (and sorry, we don't support Snow Leopard until next year...)

etc...

Seriously, there are a huge number of people who have NO chance of their IT department doing this for them. There is a reason so many people need to obtain it via other means.

Feb 17, 2010 9:10 PM in response to Peter Wisnovsky

Any suggestions on how to stop those panics?

I have the Cisco VPN client installed on a MBP and it works fine (no panics at all yet).

I (re)installed it on a Mac mini and it seems to work, I connect ok, can start browsing the remote end, but then consistently it forces a kernel panic.

Any suggestions most appreciated.

Cheers,
Ashley.

All Macs running 10.6.2

Snow Leopard and built-in CISCO VPN access