Hello,
I will preface this by an apology if I am putting this in the incorrect place, or this is a topic that is well covered; but I so far have not been able to get solid information on this.
From what I understand, ICS is going to include and/or support Cisco AnyConnect . However, that does not help the many users out there still using legacy Cisco VPN solution at our workplaces.
Specifically AnyConnect (at least on android, the only flavor I have had experience with) does not support Group Authentication, and neither do the default VPN clients included on Android.
So far I have had success on my Samsung Epic 4G running Froyo using VPNC to connect to my corporate network, but now I am shopping for a tablet. Likewise I have friends at work who want an android tablet but since they can't easily connect to work to do very basic things, they haven't bought.
I don't want to need root just to get a proper VPN connection up and running. For one thing that leaves me dependent upon a tun.ko being available for the tablet, not to mention just getting root in the first place isn't always easy as it was for the Kindle Fire or my Epic. And I certainly am not going to recommend that for my less technical friends.
So all that exposition out of the way, it comes down to this simple question - will ICS have a built in client that will support IPSEC group authentication , or will such client be available to install without root and needing to install modules?
Thanks for your patience if this is covered elsewhere, but most everything I have found in searches here (and elsewhere) for is based on AnyConnect and my company's VPN doesn't support that, and they aren't going to change that anytime soon.
I apologize - this should probably have been in the Question forum.
I would also like to know the answer to this to. my work uses group authentication and there is no apps or anything that will do this!
I am looking for this information as well. I certainly wish Google and Cisco could sit down and get this figured out. Apple did and the iPads at work can VPN in but not my Transformer Prime. I knew this before I purchased it, but went ahead with it hoping this would be added/fixed with ICS.
I havent had a chance to try it yet on my GN but you can now create "IPSec XAuth with PSK" (AKA Cisco VPN). If you have the GSM version of the GN you might run into problems though:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=20627062
I have a VZW GN device which someone in that thread mentioned works. Since the key for my VPN is quite hard to type I'll try it tonight and post if it works tomorrow.
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Hi,
Not sure if anyone is working on a VPN client for Android, but I think this is something a lot of people would find useful. Not sure if it is even possible to do solely from the app layer, but for folks who have rooted phones, I would think that if you can run a VPN client on linux, you should be able to run one on Android, no?
Has there been any work on this? Any thoughts on this?
Thanks
I'd love to see one. I'd be able to use it for work which would be awesome.
OpenVPN already exists
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=447230&highlight=openvpn
but that is not userspace. The problem with userspace applications is that without root there is no way to add the proper routes to force traffic over the vpn.
Of course, with root you could probably write a graphical frontend to something like OpenVPN.
Geezzzz guys this is the last thing I needed. If my employer catches wind that I can run openvpn from my phone and connect in to the office network; I will never ever get any me time outside of the office. Its nice being able to claim that I am not able to find a internet connection to help do x,y,z or troubleshoot why idiot A cannot send email to idiot B.
I see that there's been a little development here:
There's a commercial product (http://mocana.com/NanoPhone-Android.html) and there's an open-source project (http://code.google.com/p/android-vpnc/), but that one sounds a little scary.
I do have a rooted phone (RC33/JF1.41). I'm wondering if someone could simply compile vpnc and the necessary libraries for the G1. Is it more complicated than that?
So how hard would it be to get vpn setup via openvpn on a rooted phone? (for someone who's not a dev, but isn't afraid to tinker)
Hey there XDA.
i'm in the IT department for a big-time company, and we (obviously) have specific security parameters on our network.
Recently, with all of the talk about android tablets because of CES and other factors (i personally own a Viewsonic G-Tablet running VEGAn 5.1b) the team and i have come to wonder if we would be able to put an android tablet onto the domain the same way we would a regular old Windows PC/Laptop or a Blackberry phone onto the exchange server.
We use Citrix clients/servers as well as pc/laptops, and so far, as i've been scouring the market, i've been able to find a Citrix app, and a Wyse terminal app, which could be used to open VPN sessions on the server, as well as the obvious app which allows an android device to be connected completely with Microsoft Exchange Server. ( touchdown http://www.nitrodesk.com/TouchDown.aspx )
So, XDA, i figured, where else would i go but here, to the most well versed android development website on the interwebs, to ask if you guys might know of anything at all, or if something could be done.
Any ideas?
It would be awesome if someone could help me out with this.
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So some of the institutions where I use wireless on my HTC HD7 have a secure wifi network. My problem is that it requires 802.1x EAP TTLS PAP support. As far as i know (along with some use of the almighty google)... there is no support for this on windows phone 7 or almost any windows mobile devices (i do recall some ppl on this site being able to do it for the htc s621 with a registry hack).
Is there any sympathetic developer out there willing to take on the task. Once developed and functioning... I would not mind donating
...anyways... for a possible idea and look into what may be required... people on here did develop it for the android pretty recently and its done wonders...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=921237
(link of a thread where someone found the hack needed to enable support and another developer was able to find a manageable way to deploy said support)
Yeah, if someone make an app for that, it would be so awesome.
i miss this feature as well, i used symbian before wp7 which offered these advanced settings
but i'm not sure an app can make this happen
I don't mean an app because that definitely wouldn't be the way.... i mean a possible registry edit or a file to deploy with an installer
This is another thing which has been annoying me with WP7. I used to use SecureW2 client with wm6.5 but this isn't available for WP7. The phone also never seems to retain a data connection with O2 in the UK. It works sometimes after using connection set-up app but invariably drops when I need it most.
Any news from this?? EAP-TTLS would be awesome, because Uni Leipzig uses it as well...
I'd like to bump this as well. We're using Cisco's AP running Open with EAP - RADIUS security. All other common mobile OSes (iOS, Android, WinMo 6.x) can connect to this except WP7.
I'd like to recover the thread as the app mentioned is the single most important missing feature for me right now. Since it seems that we will not be getting any more feature updates in this direction (I had kind of hoped for that).
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Yeah for me too, I am not exactly sure what 802.1x I need but my university needs a username and pw, and iOS does this natively, and with android you need a separate app. I hope Windows addresses in 7.8.(fingers crossed)
After doing a little research, it looks like Android does not support CISCO VPN's using pre-shared keys??? How could that possibly be if Andoid is supposed to make it's way into the enterprise arena? I can't even use it to connect to my employers network!! Even iDevices can do that by default! Please tell me I'm missing somehting!!
THanks!
https://supportforums.cisco.com/thread/2012285
There is a link for creating and storing a key on android. If you are looking for an AnyConnect client it appears there is a beta but it requires root:
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.cisco.anyconnect.vpn.android.rooted
Thanks for the info - I appreciate it! Haven't root'd my TF yet, but the reasons to are building up...
Didn't see anything about PSK's in that thread, but maybe I missed it - I'll read through it again. For the life of me, I can't understand why Android is still missing this functionality - especially with all of the Android tablets now - they make much better remote-control devices than phones do - would be nice to use them to access our work servers when needed!
Don't blame Android.
I know what you mean jtrosky. I don't know why Android can't support Cisco VPN as easy as Apple can
jtrosky said:
After doing a little research, it looks like Android does not support CISCO VPN's using pre-shared keys??? How could that possibly be if Andoid is supposed to make it's way into the enterprise arena? I can't even use it to connect to my employers network!! Even iDevices can do that by default! Please tell me I'm missing somehting!!
THanks!
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U can use VPNC Widget for Cisco VPN.
Enjoy.
Has anyone tried using vpnc inside a debian chroot?
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Okay, as the title indicates, I am seeking information on whether any individual or group has put any effort into reimplementing adhoc wifi in ICS.
I've run around the Android AOSP specific groups and the posts from Google mods indicate that adhoc was dropped for being "deprecated" and replaced by WifiDirect. The problem here is, there's absolutely no support for WifiDirect in Windows until Windows 8 is released, and the last time I checked, having millions of devices that rely on or use adhoc wifi is not what I'd call deprecated.
I've come across a couple of modified wpa_supplicants that work for other devices with ICS, but as of yet, there's nothing for ICS for the Xoom.
I am setting up a build environment in preparation for putting my own time into readding support for adhoc wifi, which I will then make available for everyone else to use as they wish (maybe the 'big' ROM developers will toss it into their builds /shrug) but first I want to ensure that I am not redeveloping the wheel.
Are there any out there that have already started (or done) this? If so, where are they hiding? Google is either failing, or these people are not making their work public as of yet.
Do you know tha last version of CM9 can see the HOC but can't connect
I'm also looking and the only rom to see HOC is CM9 but when you try to connect the only do is saved If i can help let me know