It can also detect the firewalls of other PCs on the same network and prevent them from connecting if the protection isn't active. To ensure security, Cisco VPN Client supports several personal firewalls, including BlackIce Defender and ZoneAlarm. Like Wippien, it sets up a direct connection between PCs. It can connect to any VPN network supported. While running on your PC, Cisco establishes and maintains a secure connection. The disconnection may take several minutes. There is also a button for disconnecting, but here, the program slightly wavers. You can use 'Modify' to tweak the connection settings, and 'New' to set up a new profile. Then, it allows for several configuration options. I can only assume the reason for this is to get us to buy licenses rather than using the "free" (with purchase of an ASA!) IPSec VPN Client.While not as quick as ExpressVPN, Cisco connects in seconds. So, seems like we're being shoved toward An圜onnect to get support for current OSes. I'm taking his statement of "OS X up to 10.6 at least" as a bit of a hand-wave, since Cisco's latest release notes on the Mac client don't mention either 10.5 or 10.6, but instead make a big deal about how they now support Intel processors and have dropped support for 10.3.9 this is not particularly current news, despite the revision date on these notes of Dec 2009. The downside is that more than 2 concurrent SSL connections to an ASA is a licensed feature add-on, I believe the next level up is 25 concurrent users." In many ways from a support standpoint this is probably the way to go if you plan on larger deployment numbers. On the other hand the SSL client is pretty slick and can be configured to auto-install and auto-update for authorized users. But yes Cisco appears to have used the flip to 64-bit Windows OS’s as a reason to discontinue development for the IPSec client. In the release notes for the latest Windows version ( ) Cisco says, " For x-64 support, customers should explore with their Cisco sales representative the use of the next-generation Cisco An圜onnect VPN Client."Īs instructed I contacted my rep, and he wrote "The nice part of the current IPSec client is that it is essentially free and there are version that will support both Windows XP, Vista, & 7 32-bit and OS X up to 10.6 at least. However, as far as I can tell, this form of the VPN client seems on the way out: No Mac version version v5.x client has been provided, and, on the Windows side, no 64-bit support.
We have not yet hit issues with OS 10.5, but our use of the VPN Client is pretty basic.
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