Jun 20, 2012 Cisco's popular VPN Client for the Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6. VPN Client version: 4.9.01.0280 Release Date: 28th January 2011 The Cisco VPN Client for Mac OS X does NOT support the following. Cisco's popular VPN Client for the Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6. VPN Client version: 4.9.01.0280 Release Date: 28th January 2011 The Cisco VPN Client for Mac OS X does NOT support the following.

Vpn Client For Mac

VPN Tracker is your smart VPN client Mac choice. Use the VPN Tracker Mac App for Intel or Apple Silicon Macs, the leading IPSec Mac VPN client, for secure VPN data connections on Apple macOS Big Sur (11), macOS Catalina (10.15), macOS Mojave (10.14), macOS High Sierra (10.13), macOS Sierra (10.12), Mac OS X El Capitan (Mac OS X 10.11).

On this page:

Primer

• This guide will assist with the installation of the Cisco AnyConnect VPN client for OS X 10.6 and later
• You need administrator level account access to install this software.
• Note: Some screen shots may be slightly different from what you see depending on the version of your operating system and the VPN software.

Cisco Anyconnect

Installation

1. Download the VPN installer from MIT's download page, Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client for MAC (certificates required).
2. Find and open the downloaded file.
   
3. The file will mount a disk image. Open this disk image and launch the file named 'anyconnect-macosx-XXXXXX'.
   
4. On the following screen titled Welcome to the AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client Installer, click Continue.
   
5. When presented with the software license agreement, click Continue then click Agree on the slide-down menu.
   
6. If you are prompted 'Select a Destination...', select your primary hard drive and click Continue.
   
7. On the window titled Standard Install..., click the button labeled Install and enter your computer username and password when prompted and click Install Software.
   Note: The user must be an administrator of the machine to install.
   Result: The VPN client will begin to install itself.
   
8. When the installation has competed, click the button labeled Close.
   

Initiating a Connection to VPN and to VPN using Duo

1. Cisco AnyConnect can be found in the Cisco folder located in the Applications folder (/Applications/Cisco/).
   
2. Navigate to /Applications/Cisco/ and open 'Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client'.
3. To authenticate with Duo, enter vpn.mit.edu/duo and click the button labeled Connect.
   
4. Enter your MIT username and password then click the button labeled OK.
   With Duo authentication, you will see a field asking for a Second Password.
   In this field you may type in one of the following options:
   
   1. push - Duo will send a push notification to your registered cell phone with the Duo Security mobile app installed
   2. push2 - Duo will send a push notification to your _second registered device with the Duo Security mobile app installed_
   3. sms - Duo will send an SMS to your registered cell phone
   4. Phone -Duo will call your registered phone
   5. Phone2 -Duo will call your second registered phone
   6. Yubikey - If you are using a Yubikey for authentication, make sure the Second Password field is highlighted and use your key. For instructions on using the Yubikey, please see How do I authenticate with a YubiKey?
   7. The one time code generated by your hardware token or the Duo Security mobile app (the code changes every 60 seconds)
      In this example, I entered 'push' in the Second Password field. I will receive a push notification on my cell phone, go to the Duo app and click Approve.
      
5. When prompted at the MIT's Virtual Private Network (VPN) screen, click the button labeled Accept to connect to MIT's Virtual Private Network.
   
6. Upon successful connection, Cisco AnyConnect will minimize itself and you will see the AnyConnect logo with a small lock in your menu bar just to the left of the time.
   

See Also

The VPN package is greyed out (as shown in the screen capture below) due to incomplete/unclean installation of VPN client.

Cisco Vpn On Mac

To resolve the issue, please follow the steps below to remove the Cisco Anyconnect VPN client from your Mac OS X and re-install it again.

Cisco Vpn Client Download Mac Os X 10 12 Download

Note: If your Mac user account has no password (a blank password), you must give it a password before proceeding the procedures below. Please refer to Apple support site https://support.apple.com/en-hk/HT202860#knowpassword to change your password.

Cisco Vpn

1. From Finder menu, choose Go and then click Utilities.
2. Click Terminal.app App.
3. Type the following at the command prompt, press Enter and input the password of your Mac user account.

   sudo pkgutil --forget com.cisco.pkg.anyconnect.vpn