When I first found this problem when using the Cisco VPN Client on my new Surface Pro tablet, I then tried two other regular laptops running Windows 8, and they too had the same problem. However, we found an odd problem on the Windows 8 OS - when the Cisco VPN Client was connected, only the desktop (“classic”) applications had network connectivity, and not the new Modern ( nee “Metro”) apps. software to our Windows 7 64-bit, and now Windows 8 (which only comes in 64-bit) OS machines. We have been successfully deploying the 64-bit Cisco VPN Client 5.
The first bump in the road came with the advent of Windows 8. When we cut over from our old VPN3000 concentrators to ASA 5500 units a few years ago, all these IPsec clients continued to work, and all was well (and, importantly, the user base did not have to do or learn anything new to continue to be able to VPN.) Yes, we did also investigate An圜onnect when we cut over to the ASAs, but we found that Linux support was lacking, especially in the posture support we wanted to use, so the An圜onnect rollout was deferred. Oh, to be a Cisco IPsec VPN user these days… Now I know that we should get with the program and move to An圜onnect, since Cisco is EOL-ing the venerable Cisco VPN Client in 2014, but we have a large installed base, and since Cisco stopped making IPsec clients for Mac and Linux back in the 4.x days, we have been using the integrated VPN client on Mac OS X and the “vpnc” client on Linux on those respective platforms.
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