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VPN - Setup and Connect using the Cisco AnyConnect for OSX. This guide will assist with the installation of the Cisco AnyConnect VPN client for OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard), 10.7 (Lion), 10.8 (Mountain Lion) and 10.9 (Mavericks). Cisco AnyConnect - Empower your employees to work from anywhere, on company laptops or personal mobile devices, at any time. AnyConnect simplifies secure endpoint access and provides the security necessary to help keep your organization safe and protected. The launch of AnyConnect from a Macbook Pro running OSX Leopard is not successful. The VPN gateway is ASA running 8.0.4. The connection fails and the SVC Message.

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Mac OS X 10.9 (or later) operating system For additional system requirements and licensing dependencies, refer to the AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client Features, Licenses, and OS feature guides.

On some of our projects, we have a requirement to connect to a VPN for server access. Our team was having an issue specifically with Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client on Mac OSX making vagrant based local development environments become non-responsive. After connecting to the VPN, SSH inside the Vagrant box would stop working, as well as visiting any local domains. From what I've gathered, Cisco AnyConnect can be a bit aggressive with local networking.

I've seen the same thing in the past, because AnyConnect basically blows out your hosts file and local networking configuration and replaces it with Ciscos (many other things besides local development environments can be broken because of this).
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From what I could find, the issue seems to be semi-well documented with very few or complicated solutions. Here are just a few over the past few years:

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The only resolve is to completely restart the computer and then start Vagrant again. Simply restarting vagrant did not work. This of course is completely frustrating when you need to switch between local development and testing in a staging environment where VPN is required.

Resolution

Finally after a lot of searching, I found OpenConnect. OpenConnect is an SSL VPN client initially created to support Cisco's AnyConnect SSL VPN. In my case, I was able to simply switch from Cisco AnyConnect to OpenConnect and all my Vagrant issues went away.

VPN - Setup and Connect using the Cisco AnyConnect for OSX

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  • This guide will assist with the installation of the Cisco AnyConnect VPN client for OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard), 10.7 (Lion), 10.8 (Mountain Lion) and 10.9 (Mavericks).
  • You need administrator level account access to install this software.
  • Note: Some screen shots may be slightly different from what you see depending on the version of your operating system and the VPN software.

Installation

  1. Download the VPN installer from myIIT portal support page.
  2. Find and open the downloaded file.

3. The file will mount a disk image. Open this disk image and launch the file named 'anyconnect-macosx- XXXXXX'.

4. On the following screen titled Welcome to the AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client Installer, click Continue.

5. When presented with the software license agreement, click Continue then click Agree on the slide down menu.

6. Select only VPN an de-select all other options:

7. During the upgrade process, you will get a System Extension Blocked pop-up message. Click on Open Security Preferences:

This will open the Security & Privacy window. At the bottom, you will see the 'System software from developer 'Cisco' was blocked from loading message. Click on 'Allow.'

After you click Allow, this will permit the extension, and the software will continue to install.

8. The VPN client will begin to install itself.

9. When the installation has competed, click the button labeled Close.

10. Cisco AnyConnect can be found in the Cisco folder located in the Applications folder (/Applications/Cisco/).

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11. Navigate to /Applications/Cisco/ and open 'Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client'.

12. To connect to VPN, enter vpn.iit.edu click the button labeled Connect.

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13. Enter your portal username and password then click the button labeled OK.

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13. Upon successful connection, Cisco AnyConnect will minimize itself and you will see the AnyConnect logo with a small lock in your menu bar just to the left of the time.