networking - Share Cisco AnyConnect VPN Connection on a Mac
2013-10
Sebastian Boldt
i am currently trying to share my vpn connection on my mac. But it does not work. If i connect to the network via the Cisco AnyConnect VPN-Client and then trying to share the network, it does not work. So i tried to set up the Build-in-VPN-Client but it seems that i need to know the shared secret for my VPN-Network. But i dont know where i can find this secret cause there is no .pcf File inside the Cisco Folder. Does anyone know how to share a cisco vpn connection without the shared secret ? Maybe our Network does not need this secret ?
Oliver Hanappi
I don't know if it is possible but I would like to configure a Windows 7 VPN connection in a way that I can connect to a network which I normally reach by using Cisco AnyConnect VPN Client. Does Cisco use a protocol which Windows 7 understands also and where can I find the configuration details of the VPN connection?
If you wonder why I'm trying to do this: I need to connect via VPN to several different networks from different companies/organizations/universities and each one uses its own VPN client. I don't want my computer to have 5 VPN clients installed, therefore I'm trying to replace them with simple Windows VPN connections.
Joey
That greatly depends on the configuration of the server. Cisco Concentrators can speak PPTP which works on nearly every version of Windows, but it's costly in terms of performance. The number of possible connections drops to about a tenth for the server so this is rarely activated.
Furthermore there seems to be an option to enable L2TP. The documentation states that but at least for our university here no one figured out how to enable it and set it up.
You would have to ask the person maintaining the server whether one of the above options apply.
For the "usual" Cisco IPSec over UDP there is no native option in Windows, unfortunately.