Posts Tagged ‘64bit’
|Windows 7 x64 Cisco VPN
Monday, October 26th, 2009
[UPDATE 2010-04-25: Cisco released a 64 bit version of their client - you can download it off their site. I have not tried it, so can't speak to whether it works or not]
The Cisco VPN client does NOT support 64 bit Windows. They have officially announced they will not be releasing a 64 bit version of their client and people wishing to use Cisco VPN on 64 bit Windows should upgrade to something called AnyConnect which, as I understand it, requires a hardware/software upgrade at the VPN gateway end. No-go for a single person wanting to switch to x64.
An hour of Googling the topic later, this is my discovery: you’re screwed.
The options are:
- run Cisco VPN in a virtual machine
- buy the NCP Secure Entry Client at 120 Euro
- get the free vpnc client
- get the free Shrew Soft VPN client
While the Shrew Soft client is a well known alternative (judging by the number of blog/forum posts mentioning it), it’s a pain to set up if you don’t have a .pcf profile for your VPN connection… After losing a good hour to find and set it up (and writing the first version of this post), I got a tip from Dinko Korunic to try vpnc… and it worked like a charm.
The configuration is dead simple – gateway, group name and password, username and password and you’re off…
I haven’t actually tested Shrew or vpnc enough to talk about how good/fast/stable they are, but as far as setup goes, vpnc wins.
Tags: 64bit, cisco, shrew, vpn, vpnc, windows 7, x64
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