[c-nsp] Cisco VPN and 64 bit Windows

Ge Moua moua0100 at umn.edu
Wed Dec 9 11:34:22 EST 2009


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Ge Moua | Email: moua0100 at umn.edu

Network Design Engineer
University of Minnesota | Networking & Telecommunications Services



Jonathan Charles wrote:
> The short answer is... no.
>
> Cisco said they will never release a 64-bit version of their VPN Client.
>
> However, Anyconnect has a 64-bit variant, however, this requires a
> separate license for the ASA...
>
> There is a third-party VPN client for 64-bit that works fine:
>
> http://www.ncp-e.com/en.html
>
>
>
> Jonathan
>
> On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 9:20 AM, Marc Haber <mh+cisco-nsp at zugschlus.de> wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> at a number of customer sites, we run a VPN service for mobile users.
>> Since we usually are not in charge of the firewall that is in place
>> there, we have the following construction
>>
>>
>>  Internet
>>      |
>>  ----------         ------------
>>  |Firewall|---------|VPN Router|
>>  ----------         ------------
>>      |
>>  internal network
>>
>> The VPN router is usually an 1841, and the mobile users have the
>> "standard" Cisco VPN client for IPSEC (the one with the nice .pcf
>> files and which is currently shipping as version 5.0.04.0300). This
>> works just fine, and we would really like to stay with this setup for
>> some time.
>>
>> Unfortunately, Cisco seems to have decided to not ship the "standard"
>> VPN client for 64 bit Windows variants, which are increasingly often
>> used out in the wild. They refer to the AnyConnect VPN Client which,
>> to my "knowledge", can only connect to an ASA and not to an IOS device.
>>
>> Can anybody here tell me whether there will be a possibility available
>> to connect from 64 bit Windows to an IOS device? Any hints will be
>> appreciated.
>>
>> Greetings
>> Marc
>>
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