Remote-access Guide

asa ikev2 anyconnect remote access

by Mr. Darrell Brekke Published 2 years ago Updated 2 years ago
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Does AnyConnect over IKEv2 use IPSEC?

Even in the IKEv2 configuration, when AnyConnect connects to the ASA, it downloads profile and binary updates over SSL, but not IPsec. The AnyConnect connection over IKEv2 to the ASA uses EAP-AnyConnect, a proprietary mechanism that allows simpler implementation.

How to use AnyConnect VPN with Asa?

The remote user will open a web browser, enters the IP address of the ASA and then it will automatically download the anyconnect VPN client and establishes the connection. Here’s the topology that we will use:

How does the ASA assign IP addresses to remote users?

The ASA will assign IP addresses to all remote users that connect with the anyconnect VPN client. We’ll configure a pool with IP addresses for this: Remote users will get an IP address from the pool above, we’ll use IP address range 192.168.10.100 – 200.

What is the AnyConnect ask command?

The anyconnect ask command specifies how the anyconnect client will be installed on the user’s computer. The none default anyconnect part tells the ASA not to ask the user if he/she wants to use WebVPN or anyconnect but just starts the download of the anyconnect client automatically.

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Does AnyConnect use IKEv2?

Each of those products only supported their own protocol however with the introduction of Anyconnect Secure Mobility Client 3.0, the client can now use IPsec (IKEv2) or SSL for the transport of the VPN connection.

How do I access my Cisco ASA remotely?

There are eight basic steps in setting up remote access for users with the Cisco ASA.Configure an Identity Certificate.Upload the SSL VPN Client Image to the ASA.Enable AnyConnect VPN Access.Create a Group Policy.Configure Access List Bypass.Create a Connection Profile and Tunnel Group.Configure NAT Exemption.More items...•

Is Cisco AnyConnect a remote access VPN?

Anyconnect VPN offers full network access. The remote user will use the anyconnect client to connect to the ASA and will receive an IP address from a VPN pool, allowing full access to the network. Above we have the ASA firewall with two security zones: inside and outside.

How do I enable Cisco AnyConnect VPN through Remote Desktop?

The steps would be:Log into the ASDM.Go to Configuration, Remote Access VPN, Anyconnect Client Profile.Click Add and create a new profile and choose the Group Policy it should apply to.Click OK, and then at the Profile screen click "Apply" at the bottom (important)More items...•

How do I configure AnyConnect on ASA 5505?

Quick guide: AnyConnect Client VPN on Cisco ASA 5505Click on Configuration at the top and then select Remote Access VPN.Click on Certificate Management and then click on Identity Certificates.Click Add and then Add a new identity certificate.Click New and enter a name for your new key pair (ex: VPN)More items...•

What VPN types are supported by ASA?

For VPN Services, the ASA 5500 Series provides a complete remote-access VPN solution that supports numerous connectivity options, including Cisco VPN Client for IP Security (IPSec), Cisco Clientless SSL VPN, network-aware site-to-site VPN connectivity, and Cisco AnyConnect VPN client.

What type of VPN is Cisco AnyConnect?

Cisco AnyConnect VPNs utilize TLS to authenticate and configure routing, then DTLS to efficiently encrypt and transport the tunneled VPN traffic, and can fall back to TLS-based transport where firewalls block UDP-based traffic.

Does Cisco AnyConnect work anywhere?

Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client empowers employees to work from anywhere on company laptops or personal mobile devices. It also provides the visibility and control security teams need to identify who and which devices are accessing their infrastructure.

How does Cisco AnyConnect VPN Work?

Remote and mobile users use the Cisco AnyConnect Secure VPN client to establish VPN sessions with the adaptive security appliance. The adaptive security appliance sends web traffic to the Web Security appliance along with information identifying the user by IP address and user name.

What is port for RDP?

Overview. Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) is a Microsoft proprietary protocol that enables remote connections to other computers, typically over TCP port 3389.

How do I get Cisco AnyConnect secure mobility client?

Open a web browser and navigate to the Cisco Software Downloads webpage.In the search bar, start typing 'Anyconnect' and the options will appear. ... Download the Cisco AnyConnect VPN Client. ... Double-click the installer.Click Continue.Go over the Supplemental End User License Agreement and then click Continue.More items...

Where are Cisco AnyConnect profiles stored?

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How do I connect to Cisco ASA?

Complete the below steps.Configure the management interface. conf t. int e 0/2. ip address 192.168.100.2 255.255.255.0. nameif manage. security-level 80. exit. exit.Configure the username and privilege. username Test password Test@Cisco privilege 15.Configure the Cisco ASA to allow http connections.

How do I download AnyConnect from Asa?

Just load a new image to the ASA (under Configuration -> Remote-Access VPN -> Network (Client) Access -> AnyConnect Client Software) and the client will load the new software the next time when the client connects. Of course the client shouldn't have a setting applied to not download new software.

How do I enable telnet on ASDM?

Allow Telnet – Via ASDM (version shown 6.4(7)) Connect via ASDM > Navigate to Configuration > Device Management > Management Access > ASDM/HTTPS/Telnet/SSH > Add > Select Telnet > Supply the IP and subnet > OK.

What happens if IKEv2 doesn't match?

The UserGroup must match the name of the tunnelgroup to which the IKEv2 connection falls. If they do not match, the connection often fails and the debugs indicate a Diffie-Hellman (DH) group mismatch or a similar false negative.

Do you have to enable client services and certificates on the correct interface?

You must enable client services and certificates on the correct interface, which is the outside interface in this case. Here is an example configuration:

Does AnyConnect use IPsec?

Even in the IKEv2 configuration, when AnyConnect connects to the ASA, it downloads profile and binary updates over SSL, but not IPsec.

Does anyconnect require EKU?

Certificates with Proper EKU. It is important to note that even though it is not required for the ASA and AnyConnect combination, RFC requires that certificates have Extended Key Usage (EKU): The certificate for the ASA must contain the server-auth EKU. The certificate for the PC must contain the client-auth EKU.

What is IKEv2 in Cisco?

This document describes how to understand debugs on the Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) when Internet Key Exchange Version 2 (IKEv2) is used with a Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client. This document also provides information on how to translate certain debug lines in an ASA configuration.

Why does ASA use Auth?

The ASA sends the AUTH payload in order to request user credentials from the client. The ASA sends the AUTH method as 'RSA,' so it sends its own certificate to the client, so the client can authenticate the ASA server.

Why does the client omit the Auth payload from message 3?

The client omits the AUTH payload from message 3 in order to indicate a desire to use extensible authentication. When Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) authentication is specified or implied by the client profile and the profile does not contain the <IKEIdentity> element, the client sends an ID_GROUP type IDi payload with the fixed string *$AnyConnectClient$*. The client initiates a connection to the ASA on port 4500.

What does id mean in EAP?

id: 1 - The id helps match the EAP responses with the requests. Here the value is 1, which indicates that this is a response to the request previously sent by the ASA (authenticator). This EAP response has the 'config-auth' type of 'init'; the client is initializing the EAP exchange and is waiting for the ASA to generate the authentication request.

What is the length of an EAP packet?

Length: 150 - Length of the EAP packet includes the code, id, length, and EAP data.

What is an ASA response?

The ASA generates a response to the IKE_AUTH message and prepares to authenticate itself to the client.

Is EAP authentication allowed?

Authentication is done with EAP. Only a single EAP authentication method is allowed within an EAP conversation. The ASA receives the IKE_AUTH message from the client.

What is Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Solution?

The Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Solution provides a comprehensive, highly secure enterprise mobility solution. the Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Solution continues to lead with next-generation security and encryption, including support for the Suite B set of cryptographic algorithms, and support for IPv6 networks. More importantly, it adapts its tunneling protocol to the most efficient method. AnyConnect client can be used to connect both SSL VPN as well as IKEv2 IPSec VPN. In this document we will see how to configure only IKEv2 IPSec VPN.

What is active/active failover?

Active/Active failover is only available to security appliances in multiple context mode. In an Active/Active failover configuration, both security appliances can pass network traffic. In Active/Active failover, you divide the security contexts on the security appliance into failover groups. A failover group is simply a logical group of one or more security contexts. You can create a maximum of two failover groups on the security appliance. The admin context is always a member of failover group 1. Any unassigned security contexts are also members of failover group 1 by default. We have already seen the configuration for Active/Standby failover in the previous article. This article focuses on how to configure an Active/Active Failover configuration on ASA Security Appliance. Network Diagram (Physical Topology)

What is the IP address of AnyConnect?

You can see that we received IP address 192.168.10.100 (the first IP address from the VPN pool). Anyconnect creates an additional interface, just like the legacy Cisco VPN client does.

What is AnyConnect VPN?

Anyconnect is the replacement for the old Cisco VPN client and supports SSL and IKEv2 IPsec. When it comes to SSL, the ASA offers two SSL VPN modes: Clientless WebVPN. AnyConnect VPN. The clientless WebVPN method does not require a VPN client to be installed on the user’s computer. You just open your web browser, ...

What happens when a VPN user terminates a session?

Normally when the remote VPN user terminates the session, the anyconnect installer will be uninstalled. The anyconnect keep-installer installed command leaves it installed on the user’s computer.

What happens when you have an inbound access list?

When you have an inbound access-list on the outside interface then all your decrypted traffic from the SSL WebVPN has to match the inbound access-list. You can either create some permit statements for the decrypted traffic or you can just tell the ASA to let this traffic bypass the access-list:

Why does my client tries to download AnyConnect?

The client tries to download the Anyconnect automatically, this is because of the anyconnect ask none default anyconnect command that we used. Since we are using a self-signed certificate you will get the following error message:

When remote users connect to our WebVPN, do they have to use HTTPS?

The following option is not required but useful, whenever someone accesses the ASA through HTTP then they will be redirected to HTTPS:

What is an ayconnECT_policy?

The group policy is called “ANYCONNECT_POLICY” and it’s an internal group policy which means that we configure it locally on the ASA. An external group policy could be on a RADIUS server.

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Introduction

  • This document describes how to understand debugs on the Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) when Internet Key Exchange Version 2 (IKEv2) is used with a Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client. This document also provides information on how to translate certain debug lines in an ASA configuration. This document does not describe how to pass traf...
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Prerequisites

  • Requirements
    Cisco recommends that you have knowledge of the packet exchange for IKEv2. For more information, refer to IKEv2 Packet Exchange and Protocol Level Debugging.
  • Components Used
    The information in this document is based on these software and hardware versions: 1. Internet Key Exchange Version 2 (IKEv2) 2. Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Version 8.4 or later The information in this document was created from the devices in a specific lab environment. Al…
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CORE Issue

  • The Cisco Technical Assistance Center (TAC) often uses IKE and IPSec debug commands in order to understand where there is a problem with IPSec VPN tunnel establishment, but the commands can be cryptic.
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Scenario

  • ASA Configuration
    This ASA configuration is strictly basic, with no use of external servers.
  • XML File
    Note: The UserGroup name in the XML client profile must be the same as the name of the tunnel-group on the ASA. Otherwise, the error message 'Invalid Host Entry. Please re-enter' is seen on the AnyConnect client.
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Debug Logs and Descriptions

  • Note: Logs from the Diagnostics and Reporting Tool (DART) are generally very chatty, so certain DART logs have been omitted in this example due to insignificance.
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Tunnel Verification

  • AnyConnect
    Sample output from the show vpn-sessiondb detail anyconnectcommand is:
  • ISAKMP
    Sample output from the show crypto ikev2 sacommand is: Sample output from the show crypto ikev2 sa detailcommand is:
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