Re: Cisco Anyconnect VPN

[Mathieu Trudel <mathieu tl gmail com>]

On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 6:29 PM, Gianluca Sforna <giallu gmail com> wrote:
> For a work I'm doing I'd need to connect to a Cisco Anyconnect based
> VPN and it seems I can't figure how to do it with NetworkManager (I'm
> currently on Fedora 12) vpnc plugin.

If you're really using the vpnc plugin, and not the openconnect
plugin, then it's very likely this is the cause of your problems. VPNC
uses IPSec to connect to the VPN gateway, which doesn't deal with the
same negotiation for groups as AnyConnect. It also needs to be enabled
in a different way than groups for use with AnyConnect in the Cisco
device you'll be using (or at least, it was the case with Cisco ASA
systems).

On the other hand, openconnect supports the same VPN over SSL methods
as the Cisco AnyConnect client. At least on Ubuntu, it worked quite
nicely back when I was using it.

Regards,

/ Matt