- Cisco Anyconnect Vs Windows Vpn
- Cisco Anyconnect Vpn Service Not Available Windows 10 Free
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After deploying windows information protection CISCO Anyconnect VPN application is not working. It says VPN service is not available. I have checked in services.msc, it is still running and start up is in Automatic only. I installed Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client into my Windows 10 laptop, but when I run it, it pops out VPN Service not available. After OK, it pops out The VPN agent service is not responding. Please restart this application after a minute. I checked in Services.msc and Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Agent is Running.
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‘.
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.
If you are facing the problem then you can try the following solution that worked for me.
- 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.
Cisco Anyconnect Vs Windows Vpn
- 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.
My company provides me with a Windows 10 based Laptop and the Cisco AnyConnect client in order to connect to Corporate facilities such as Email, Intranet and Business Apps. I’d recently uplifted my version of Win10 to 1709 (Corp allows both SCCM WSUS and Microsoft online updating and I’m allowed local device admin rights) and noticed that the AnyConnect client would always Connect then Reconnect and Reconnect again which was annoying, especially as I’ll only VPN in when at home or working at a client side.
Googling around suggested that IPv6 was the issue but disabling that in the Virtual Network Adapter that AnyConnect sets up didn’t change the behaviour. No other ideas sprang to mind so I re-ran the connect scenario as it was reproducible at the same time capturing a network trace with Wireshark. I also generated the AnyConnect client diagnostics using the ‘DART’ tool. Then settled down for an hour to run a side-by-side comparison. It looks like AnyConnect enumerates all the physical network interfaces, sets up it’s connection to the Secure Gateway (ie. VPN Server appliance) then later on finds another physical network interface which causes the entire configuration to be torn done and the VPN connection reestablished – twice.
The new physical interface was a vSwitch but one that had IP addresses allocated from the pool handed out by the Secure Gateway which was odd as that suggested it was AnyConnect’s own configuration causing the behaviour. It did however make me recall that I have client Hyper-V enabled and by default a vSwitch is created for my Hyper-V based VM. I disabled the client Hyper-V feature and now no longer get the 3-connect scenario.
Yay – success, but then I’m struggling to remember whether this was an issue with the 1703 build of Win10 as that was when I first enabled client Hyper-V. I don’t think so as it was annoying enough for me to diagnose, so I would have done so in the 1703 timeframe. Now it’s a call on which I want more – a quiet VPN connect or client Hyper-V? As I have an MSDN subscription and can create VM’s to my heart’s content in Azure I’m going with quiet VPN…
Cisco Anyconnect Vpn Service Not Available Windows 10 Free
Microsoft Windows 10 1703 Build 16299.64
Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client 4.3.04027
Cisco Anyconnect Vpn Service Not Available Windows 10 Download
Laters,
Matt