vpn connection - non secure gateway

igadoter · 05-10-2011, 03:31 AM

Hi,
I've installed (Slackware 12.2) Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client for vpn connection (it is OpenSSL based app). When I'm trying to connect using this agent I get the error

Code:

AnyConnect cannot confirm it is connected to your secure gateway.  
The local network may not be trustworthy.  Please try another network.

I don't know much about vpn. Any help are very welcomed.

baltho · 05-10-2011, 04:31 AM

That message is telling you that there's a problem with the server certificate. Either somebody's trying a man-in-the-middle attack (possible but unlikely) or the server you're connecting to doesn't have a trusted CA certificate, or it doesn't use certificates at all and your client thinks it does.
The vpn I use doesn't use certificates: just a group and user name/password, so maybe you can tell your client not to use certificates for authentication? I'd call or email the vpn server admin to find out, though, just to be safe...