Ubuntu Connect To Cisco Vpn



If you don't need the 'official' Cisco AnyConnect VPN software, I highly recommend installing the 'network-manager-openconnect-gnome' package in the Ubuntu Repository. It uses OpenConnect which is an open source client for AnyConnect. Connect to VPN, run: sudo openconnect yourvpn.example.com. It prompts you to type in username and password. Once these are authenticated, the VPN connection is established. Keep the terminal window open while the VPN session is active. Network resources such as shared folders, NAS drives, servers, and workstations should now be available. /opt/cisco/vpn/bin/vpn connect someasaalias Establishes a connection to a security appliance by reading the profile and looking up the alias someasaalias in order to find its address. /opt/cisco/vpn/bin/vpn stats.

Configure a Cisco VPN connection on Ubuntu Linux is very simple, no annoying proprietary client needed, you can do it with the standard Network Manager.

First be sure to have the Network Manager plugin for Cisco VPN: network-manager-vpnc-gnome.

To do it, open Ubuntu Software Center and search network-manager.

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So click on More info button.

In Add-on section be sure you have selected the network-manager-vpnc-gnome plugin. If not, select it and click on Apply Changes button.

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Now, from Network Manager select Configure VPN

click on Add button

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select the type of connection: Cisco compatible VPN (vpnc)

give a name to your connection, then, in the VPN tab, input the credentials to connect to the VPN

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Now you can connect to VPN selecting it from Network Manager.

Usually, when you are connected to a VPN, all traffic goes through it and is possible that you are not able to browse internet, send or receive e-mails, use skype and other services due to the firewall of the network that blocking you.

To solve this problem, you have to specify to use the VPN tunnel only for the resources on its network.

To do it Edit your VPN configuration and click on Routes button in the IPv4 Setting Tab

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Add the information about the network of the VPN and select Use this connection only for resources on its network.

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Before to end this post I’d like to write about an interesting particular: when you install the network-manager plugin for Cisco VPN, the vpnc package is installed, too.

It provides some interesting commands including pcf2vpnc.

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This command permit to decode the Group password (IPSec secret) from a PCF file usually used from Cisco VPN client for Windows.

Example:

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Result:

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