Cisco Anyconnect Vpn Client 10.9 Free
Oh, to be a Cisco IPsec VPN user these days… Now I know that we should get with the program and move to AnyConnect, since Cisco is EOL-ing the venerable Cisco VPN Client in 2014, but we have a large installed base, and since Cisco stopped making IPsec clients for Mac and Linux back in the 4.x days, we have been using the integrated VPN client on Mac OS X and the “vpnc” client on Linux on those respective platforms. When we cut over from our old VPN3000 concentrators to ASA 5500 units a few years ago, all these IPsec clients continued to work, and all was well (and, importantly, the user base did not have to do or learn anything new to continue to be able to VPN.) Yes, we did also investigate AnyConnect when we cut over to the ASAs, but we found that Linux support was lacking, especially in the posture support we wanted to use, so the AnyConnect rollout was deferred.
Symptom: AnyConnect VPN connection is frequently interrupted on OS X 10.9 (Mavericks) due to bug in Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks) - Reference Apple bugreport ID: 15261749. Conditions: After connecting, users will experience frequent interruptions to the VPN connection Please note that the reliability problems do appear to vary based on WiFi/Wired. When I launch the Cisco VPN client, my PC shows connected and gets the IP of 10.9.0.150 which is expected. However, it also gets the gateway of 10.9.0.1 which I have no idea where it comes from. Thus my PC can't access any internal network or external network.
The first bump in the road came with the advent of Windows 8. We have been successfully deploying the 64-bit Cisco VPN Client 5.0.07.0440 software to our Windows 7 64-bit, and now Windows 8 (which only comes in 64-bit) OS machines. However, we found an odd problem on the Windows 8 OS — when the Cisco VPN Client was connected, only the desktop (“classic”) applications had network connectivity, and not the new Modern (nee “Metro”) apps. When I first found this problem when using the Cisco VPN Client on my new Surface Pro tablet, I then tried two other regular laptops running Windows 8, and they too had the same problem. A support call to Microsoft on this issue got lost in the shuffle (too many internal transfers on their side, I guess) and I never pursued it, because all the desktop apps that we had to support were working fine over VPN. (It does leave me wondering how Microsoft has changed the Windows IP stack for the Modern apps, but that’s a black box to me since it’s a closed-source system.)
Cisco Anyconnect Vpn Client 10.9 Login
Then came the free upgrade to Windows 8.1, which not only comes with the return of the Start button, but also the shiny new Internet Explorer 11. Between the lure of getting a Windows 8 that actually is usable on a regular desktop machine, and the upgrade price (free!), I took the early plunge and upgraded my Windows 8 machines (the aforementioned Surface Pro, and a regular laptop.) I was hoping that the VPN connection issue with the Metro Modern apps would be fixed (sadly, no) but imagine my horror when the new IE11 desktop browser also had connectivity issues! This is pretty much a deal-killer for us, as we are switching over to using SaaS for some LOB apps. So, for now, we are officially not deploying or supporting either Windows 8, or 8.1, on our business machines (sorry, MSFT!) due to these VPN connection problems.
Unduh minitool partition wizard full. At least they let us buy Apple products as well here. We’ve always had a good experience with the Apple MacBook line (both Pro and Air) and more and more of our staff is electing to use an Apple notebook running Mac OS X. We have a variety of machines out there running OS X 10.7 (Lion) and 10.8 (Mountain Lion), and the built-in “Cisco IPsec” VPN Client has always worked well for us.
However, last week Apple did the free OS upgrade thing too (OS X 10.9 “Mavericks”) and like little kids running after candy (it is Halloween, after all…) I and a bunch of other co-workers jumped right on it, and upgraded our machines. All was well, until I got the first call about “my VPN session disconnects after 60 minutes”… Then the next day, another one. Upon testing it out and verifying the problem on my own MacBook, and then looking into the reason for this, I see the following entries in the OS X system log:
