Remote-access Guide

ipsec remote access vpn anyconnect

by Donavon Bosco Published 2 years ago Updated 1 year ago
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What does R1 mean in the AnyConnect VPN settings?

The remote user is located somewhere on the outside and wants remote access with the Anyconnect VPN client. R1 on the left side will only be used so that we can test if the remote user has access to the network. Let’s take a look at the configuration!

Does AnyConnect IPsec require IKEv2?

!anyconnect ipsec only requires ikev2, you do not need to follow this. !Data destined to the address in ACL will be sent via VPN. In this setup AD is used as the authentication server for IPsec VPN. !Define the aaa-server protocol first, in this setup is ldap.

What is the VPN tunnel protocol for AnyConnect?

The VPN tunnel protocol is ssl-client (for anyconnect) and also ssl-clientless (clientless SSL VPN). Split tunneling has been enabled and we refer to the access-list “SPLIT_TUNNEL” that we just created. The DNS server 8.8.8.8 will be assigned to remote VPN users.

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.

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Does Cisco AnyConnect support IPsec?

- Internet Key Exchange version 2 (IKEv2) is the latest key exchange protocol used to establish and control Internet Protocol Security (IPsec) tunnels. The AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client now supports IPsec with IKEv2 for all desktop operating systems supported by AnyConnect 3.0 and above.

Does remote access VPN use IPsec?

While Remote access VPN supports SSL and IPsec technology.

What is IPsec remote access VPN?

Internet Protocol Security (IPsec) is a suite of protocols that support cryptographically secure communication at the IP layer. With IPsec connections, you can provide secure access between two hosts, two sites, or remote users and a LAN. The firewall supports IPsec as defined in RFC 4301.

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.

What is the difference between IPsec and VPN?

The major difference between an IPsec VPN and an SSL VPN comes down to the network layers at which encryption and authentication are performed. IPsec operates at the network layer and can be used to encrypt data being sent between any systems that can be identified by IP addresses.

What kind 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.

Should I use IPSec?

The main benefit of an IPsec VPN is that you can access almost anything on the network that you could if you were locally connected such as servers, printers, and attached storage. IPSec operates at the Network Layer of the OSI model, meaning users have full access to their corporate network regardless of application.

Can IPSec be hacked?

Hackers Could Decrypt IPsec Information Ordinarily, IPsec ensures cryptographically secured communications when people use insecure and publicly accessible portals, such as when browsing the internet.

What are the 3 protocols used in IPSec?

IPsec is a suite of protocols widely used to secure connections over the internet. The three main protocols comprising IPsec are: Authentication Header (AH), Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP), and Internet Key Exchange (IKE).

What is Cisco AnyConnect used for?

Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client empowers remote workers with frictionless, highly secure access to the enterprise network from any device, at any time, in any location while protecting the organization.

How does Cisco AnyConnect VPN client work?

When a user opens a VPN session using Cisco AnyConnect, the AnyConnect client connects to the adaptive security appliance using SSL. The client authenticates with the adaptive security appliance and is assigned an internal IP address on the network.

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 do I connect to IPsec?

Creating an IPsec VPN connectionNavigate to the Network and Sharing Center. ... Click Set up a new connection or network.Select Connect to a workplace, and then click Next.If prompted with "Do you want to use a connection that you already have?", select No, create a new connection, and then click Next.More items...•

What is IP security in network security?

What is IPsec? IPsec (Internet Protocol Security) is a suite of protocols that secure network communication across IP networks. It provides security services for IP network traffic such as encrypting sensitive data, authentication, protection against replay and data confidentiality.

What files can Cisco AnyConnect have?

Virtual File System creation for each context can have Cisco Anyconnect files like Image and profile.

Which crypto protocol allows the IPsec client and the ASA to establish a shared secret key?

Specify the Diffie-Hellman group for the IKE policy—the crypto protocol that allows the IPsec client and the ASA to establish a shared secret key.

What is dynamic crypto map?

Dynamic crypto maps define policy templates in which not all the parameters are configured. This lets the ASA receive connections from peers that have unknown IP addresses, such as remote access clients.

What is ESP in security?

esp specifies the Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP) IPsec protocol (currently the only supported protocol for IPsec).

What happens if a Cisco VPN client has a different preshared key size?

If a Cisco VPN Client with a different preshared key size tries to connect, the client logs an error message indicating it failed to authenticate the peer.

Do you need a mask for a VPN?

The address mask is optional. However, You must supply the mask value when the IP addresses assigned to VPN clients belong to a non-standard network and the data could be routed incorrectly if you use the default mask. A typical example is when the IP local pool contains 10.10.10.0/255.255.255.0 addresses, since this is a Class A network by default. This could cause routing issues when the VPN client needs to access different subnets within the 10 network over different interfaces.

Does IKEv2 require a VPN license?

IPsec remote access VPN using IKEv2 requires an AnyConnect Plus or Apex license, available separately. IPsec remote access VPN using IKEv1 and IPsec site-to-site VPN using IKEv1 or IKEv2 uses the Other VPN license that comes with the base license. See Cisco ASA Series Feature Licenses for maximum values per model.

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 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 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 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.

How to start anyconnect profile?

You can start your anyconnect profile by listing the available server list you intend to create, after which you can click on apply the command anyconnect profiles YOUR_PROFILE disk0:/YOUR_PROFILE.xml will be added for you in the webvpn section.

What happens to user data in VPN?

User’s data to internal network will be tunnelled in VPN, other traffic will be through the internet.

Does VPN send data through public internet?

In this setup if VPN user is sending data destined to the subnet or host specified in the split tunnel, the data will be sent through VPN, otherwise will be sent through public internet.

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