The Cisco VPN client does not support Mac OS X versions Snow Leopard and newer. The recommended way to use the Sonic.net VPN is to use the Mac OS X built in support for Cisco VPNs.
However with one of the updates to Snow Leopard, maybe the update to 10.6.4 or 10.6.5 but I can't be sure - It is up to 10.6.8 right now - the built in VPN stopped working with the two Cisco VPNs I was using it for, Sonic's and my university's. I have only casually tried to solve the problem as I have not had much need for the VPN on the two Snow Leopard machines (one 32 bit, one 64 bit) here and it continued to work fine on Lion and linux boxes and a Windows VM I tried it with.
Now, however, I do have a reason to use the VPN from a Snow Leopard machine.
I haven't yet seen a clear explanation of what type of setting in a Cisco VPN server is no longer handled by the Snow Leopard VPN built-in client. It may be that there is some option in the server that Sonic can tweak to re-enable use from Snow Leopard, but I don't know what to ask for.
Does anyone have some knowledge about this that could help, either about a setting that Sonic could change on the server or an alternative VPN client that can run on Snow Leopard?
Thanks
Sidney
However with one of the updates to Snow Leopard, maybe the update to 10.6.4 or 10.6.5 but I can't be sure - It is up to 10.6.8 right now - the built in VPN stopped working with the two Cisco VPNs I was using it for, Sonic's and my university's. I have only casually tried to solve the problem as I have not had much need for the VPN on the two Snow Leopard machines (one 32 bit, one 64 bit) here and it continued to work fine on Lion and linux boxes and a Windows VM I tried it with.
Now, however, I do have a reason to use the VPN from a Snow Leopard machine.
I haven't yet seen a clear explanation of what type of setting in a Cisco VPN server is no longer handled by the Snow Leopard VPN built-in client. It may be that there is some option in the server that Sonic can tweak to re-enable use from Snow Leopard, but I don't know what to ask for.
Does anyone have some knowledge about this that could help, either about a setting that Sonic could change on the server or an alternative VPN client that can run on Snow Leopard?
Thanks
Sidney