RE: Cisco Client Cannot Connect Outbound



Hi Bill,

Thank you for posting in SBS newsgroup.

From the description, I understand that you want to allow the internal
Cisco VPN clients to establish the VPN connection with the external VPN
server through Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server
2004. If I have misunderstood your concerns, please do not hesitate to let
me know.

Based on my knowledge, the Cisco VPN client is a client side connection
manage program for Cisco VPN server. It uses L2TP/IPSec VPN method. Is it a
Cisco Concentrator 3300? If not, I'm afraid that you may not be able to
establish the VPN connection by using IPsec. As IPSec is designed, it
doesn't allow going through a firewall (NAT) to connect for security
reasons.

818043 L2TP/IPSec NAT-T Update for Windows XP and Windows 2000
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=818043

If the remote VPN server is a Cisco Concentrator 3300, you may refer to the
following KB article:

812076 How to enable a Cisco IPSec VPN client to connect to a Cisco VPN
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=812076

You can refer to the port usage described in the KB. For UDP port 500 and
4500, we can use the pre-defined protocol definitions in ISA server 2004
(IKE Client and IPSec NAT-T Client). For UDP port 10000, you may want to
create a new protocol definition for this. Please create a rule to allow
the three protocols from internal network to external.

Please also make sure that the clients are running in SecureNAT mode. The
VPN pass-through would not work in firewall client method.

Please also run CEICW and select Enable firewall and then make sure Virtual
Private Networking (VPN) is selected in the Services Configuration page.

Related info:

http://www.isaserver.org/articles/IPSec_Passthrough.html

Please understand that since this is a third-party VPN solution, you may
also need to involve the Cisco support into this issue. Some settings on
the VPN client or the server could also affect the VPN connection through a
firewall.

More information:

838245 How to permit PPTP clients to access the external network through ISA
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=838245

887006 When you use the ISA 2004 Firewall Client program, you cannot make a
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=887006

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I hope the above information helps. If you have any questions or concerns,
please feel free to let me know. I look forward to your reply!

Best regards,

Crina Li (MSFT)

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| From: "Bill Glidden" <billyg1943@xxxxxxxxxxx>
| Subject: Cisco Client Cannot Connect Outbound
| Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2006 19:50:29 +1000
| | Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windows.server.sbs
| |
| Tidying up swing migration from SBS 200 to 2003 SP1 + ISA 2004 and have a
| problem with Cisco VPN client on the LAN being unable to connect to a
remote
| site. I know the ports to use but I am unsure as to how I use CEICW to
| open them (assuming this is the problem). It used to work with the old
| server and the new server is the only change. Can someone please tell me
| how to do this?
|
|
|

.



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