02-05-2021

Cisco Anyconnect Does Not Connect



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I use Cisco AnyConnect on my Windows 7 computer to make VPN connections. It also has capability to connect to WiFi. But I always had problems in connecting toWiFi with AnyConnect. Connection drops frequently and it keeps saying ‘Acquiring IP address‘.

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AnyConnect installs a service called ‘Network Access Manager‘ which seems like takes over the native Windows WiFi connecting client. So when I click on the network icon in the System tray it says ‘No connections are available'(See below snapshot). Without AnyConnect, it always displays the WiFi connections available.

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Symptom: AnyConnect will not parse the PAC file correctly. If one needs to use a proxy to connect to the VPN endpoint this might result in an inability to connect. Conditions: Using Vista with IE8 seems to be a trigger. Close the Network Connections window. Attempt to connect to the VPN and then the Internet. Windows 8, 8.1, 10: Instead of using the Start button, begin with the Search tool. The rest of the Windows 7 steps will work for Windows 8. A customer did submit this tidbit: My computer had a software named Connectify which is used for creating ad-hoc. Currently, this is not possible because it is not supported. AnyConnect Profile Does Not Get Replicated to the Standby After Failover. The AnyConnect 3.0 VPN client with ASA Version 8.4.1 software works fine. However, after failover, there is no replication for the AnyConnect profile related configuration. I am using AnyConnect VPN with Windows 10 to connect to my corporate network and it works fine. I would like to be able to connect to the corporate VPN via Ubuntu 20.10 as well (on VMWare Workstation 16 Player), currently not working properly, it looks like a DNS problem. I have been noticing that any time I try to use the Cisco AnyConnect VPN I have to start it manually as the remote desktop manager cannot open it. It will close it when I close a RDP session it just wont open it or start the connection. I am currently running Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client version 3.1.05160 and the startup is located in "C: Program Files (x86) Cisco Cisco.

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If you are facing the problem then you can try the following solution that worked for me.

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  • Open Services management console by running Services.msc from Run
  • Find the service ‘Cisco AnyConnect Network Access Manager‘.
  • Right click and stop the service.
  • Now Cisco AnyConnect will say ‘NAM service unavailable‘
  • Now Windows will use the native WiFi client to connect to the WiFi
  • When you reboot your system, the NAM service will start and may cause problem again. You can disable this service in Services management console to prevent that.

AnyConnect has settings to disable the NAM feature. But that did not work for me. Even after disabling NAM service, I could not connect to WiFi. Windows network icon shows the WiFi connection but gives the error ‘Windows was not able to connect to…‘. I followed the below steps to do this.

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  • Opened Anyconnect window and click on Advanced.
  • Clicked on ‘Networks’ tab in the left side pane.
  • Clicked on Configuration tab. Changed the NAM to disabled as shown below.