Cisco AnyConnect Error – ‘The client could not connect because of a secure gateway address failure. Please verify Internet connectivity and server address’
KB ID 0000558 Problem Seen when trying to use the AnyConnect client to connect to your Cisco Device. Error: Cisco AnyConnect The client could not connect because of a secure gateway address failure. Please verify Internet connectivity and server address. Solution Note: Common sense dictates, make sure you actually have internet connectivity first! Essentially this is caused because the AnyConnect client wants to connect to the...
Cisco AnyConnect – Essentials / Premium Licenses. Explained
KB ID 0000628 Problem Note: With Anyconnect 4 Cisco now use Plus and Apex AnyConnect licensing. When Cisco released the 8.2 version of the ASA code, they changed their licensing model for AnyConnect Licenses. There are two licensing models, Premium and Essentials. Solution Cisco ASA AnyConnect Premium Licenses. You get two of these free with your firewall*, with a ‘Premium License’ you can use the AnyConnect client...
Cisco AnyConnect – Untrusted VPN Server Blocked!
KB ID 0000651 Problem The newest versions of the AnyConnect client now show you the following; If you are seeing this you’re using the (default) self signed certificate, or you connected to an IP address rather than the FQDN. But unlike before, you can now ‘lower’ the security so it does not warn you every time. Solution 1. From the warning screen (shown above) select ‘Change Settings…’. 2. Untick...
Redirect AnyConnect Browser Connections From HTTP to HTTPS
KB ID 0000707 Problem AnyConnect, is great for users, but most of them are not used to typing full URL’s into their browsers. Modern browsers will prefix your URL with ‘http://’ for you. That’s brilliant most of the time, but AnyConnect and SSL VPN need to go to ‘https://’. Wouldn’t it be good if your users typed vpn.petenetlive.com into their browsers, and instead of the browser...
AnyConnect Error ‘The secure gateway has rejected the connection attempt, No assigned address’
KB ID 0000876 Problem I upgraded a clients ASA5510 firewall(s) yesterday. Post upgrade he got this error; The secure gateway has rejected the connection attempt. A new connection attempt to the same or another secure gateway is needed, which requires re-authentication. The following message was received from the secure gateway: No assigned address. Solution Thankfully the error is pretty descriptive, the remote client can not get an...