One of the world's leading Virtual Private Network providers
Cisco are one of the world's leaders in VPN technology and Cisco VPN Client is one of their most popular apps, used by thousands of individuals or businesses around the world.
If you can't access your office or need to connect to your office network and admin systems remotely, then a VPN is the simple answer. There's nothing complicated about Cisco VPN Client and the latest version is incredibly stable. Once you've installed it, you'll need to load a profile that corresponds to the VPN network that you want to use. You can do this using the "Import" option at the top of the interface.
After that, you simply need to enter your username and password and you should find that Cisco VPN Client connects incredibly quickly. There are a few additional options while you are connected. "Modify" allows you to tweak your connection settings, "New" allows you to setup a new profile and "Disconnect" obviously disconnects. In fact, disconnection is perhaps the only downside of this client - since connection is so fast, I don't understand why disconnection takes much longer and sometimes it can be frustrating hanging around for it to process the disconnection when you just want to shut down your Mac.
Overall, Cisco set the standards with VPN clients and if you're looking for a simple, solid and secure connection, you can't really go wrong with this one.
User reviews about Cisco VPN Client
by Dawn Gower-Godfrey
broken.
.dmg is corrupt - could never launch the file - downloaded twice with same result
by Anonymous
good.
I think is very very very important for away connection ....
by Nick Mead
@error 51 even with Snow Leopard.
Please read my previous comments. Cisco VPN is no longer needed on Snow Leopard and Lion.
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by Anonymous
error 51 even with Snow Leopard.
Just installed VPN client 2 days ago. Turned off my machine last night. Could not get back on.
Error 51: could not get on VPN sub system. Ugh!!! More
by Nick Mead
@Lion.
Please note you DO NOT need to install Cisco VPN client in Lion. Since Snow Leopard, OS X supports Cisco VPN natively. You can read instructions how to set it up here in Snow Leopard and it is probably very similar in Lion:http://onsoftware.en.softonic.com/how-to-configure-a-cisco-vpn-client-in-snow-leopard
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by Anonymous
VPN Client 4.9 for does not work with 10.7.
The new Mac OS 10.7( Lion ) does not work with CISCO VPN Client. Users get " Error 51: Unable to communicate with the VPN subsystem. Please make sure that you have at least one network interface that is currently active and has an ip address and start this application." More