Emulation of Software VPN client
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I think that I know the answer already but I am seeking confirmation.
My company insist on using the pain in the royals Cisco VPN client, this app is so mandblowingly incompatible with the likes of Windows 7 and any 64 bit OS renders it mega unstable to boot …. it is also near impossible to get up to date versions unless you sign in blood for a Cisco account.
So can its behaviour be reproduced in openVPN ... it triggers a username / password prompt AFTER it authenticates with the target system (I have the user ID and Password for this) so I'm guessing I can't reproduce this in openVPN.
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The short answer is no.
The longer answer is that it would be better to ask questions about the capability of a program on it's own mailing list or forum ;)
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I think you can do something like this on pfSense 2.0
There is an option in the 2.0 gui for "SSL/TLS + User Auth" but I haven't tried it.
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That assumes that OpenVPN speaks the same VPN protocols as Cisco. I'm pretty sure Cisco's VPN use either IPsec or PPTP, neither of which OpenVPN use.
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Try this
http://www.ncp-e.com/en/downloads/software.html
It is compatible with the cisco client and works on 32 and 64 bit XP/Vista/Windows 7. -
@Cry:
That assumes that OpenVPN speaks the same VPN protocols as Cisco. I'm pretty sure Cisco's VPN use either IPsec or PPTP, neither of which OpenVPN use.
The impression I got is that he wanted to ditch the Cisco VPN entirely and see if an OpenVPN client could connect to pfSense and then get a login prompt post-connect.
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I appreciate the tips, I will try that app too.
I would like to get rid of all these VPN client things when I am sat home (which is my place of work when not globe trotting) and just have the vpn fire up when I access certain places like the corporate E-Mail servers in the same way that my IPSec works.
The reason for this is that I can't use the laptop for anything that requires access outside the VPN i.e. accessing my printer or NAS !! when it is logged in with Cisco (assuming that it actually works - it doesn't always as it loses the profile settings and needs a PC reboot to fix)
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So you'd want pfSense to hook into your VPN, which is Cisco on the other end?
That's a little different, but again it may work in 2.0 as it should support xauth, which is how Cisco's VPN client does the authentication beyond using the psk/group/etc.
Not sure if it would work, but it stands a better chance.
