[c-nsp] Cisco SSL VPN?

[Eric Girard]

Something relatively recent that makes the lack of 64-bit support much more palatable is the new Essentials license.  It needs 8.2 code, but for short money it gives you AnyConnect client only SSL VPN support for the max number of tunnels supported by the box.  It restores the cost/benefit of the old IPSec client.

Beyond that, to add to what Justin said, nothing fancy, it pretty much works, similar to the old IPSec client.  I tend to stay away from the clientless and Java client stuff, just stick to the AnyConnect.

Eric

-----Original Message-----
From: cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net [mailto:cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Justin M. Streiner
Sent: Friday, August 21, 2009 4:22 PM
To: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
Subject: Re: [c-nsp] Cisco SSL VPN?

On Fri, 21 Aug 2009, Charles Mills wrote:

> Anyone currently (successfully) using the SSL VPN on an ASA box (5520 or above)?
>
> I'm in uncharted territory with this feature and not sure if it is
> worth going down this route.

I've deployed it for a client and it seems to work pretty well, though as
far as I know they're not doing anything terribly exotic.

One important gotcha:
The SSL VPN connections are licensed independently from IPSEC connections.
The base license allows for only two concurrent connections at least on
the smaller ASAs, so you might need to purchase a license upgrade if you
want to roll it out on a larger scale.  If you do a "show version" on the
ASA, the number of WebVPN peers is the number you need to know.

Cisco has made it clear that they're moving in this direction, as they
don't seem to be putting much new development effort into the IPSEC client
- it doesn't support 64-bit OSen, and I doubt they'll spin many cycles
testing Windows 7, etc...  They seem to want people to move to the
AnyConnect (SSL VPN) model.

jms
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