A VPN connection will not be established. AnyConnect was not able to establish a connection to the specified secure gateway. Please try connecting again.” To fix this, make sure there is no other local user logged into this computer other than you. If you are not sure whether or not others have logged in. Dec 23, 2015 A new connection attempt to the same or another secure gateway is needed, which requires re-authentication. The following message was received from the secure gateway: No assigned address' Upon troubleshooting I found even though I configured the correct Connection Profile for SSL VPN, the incoming connection was taking the DefaultWEBVPNGroup. AnyConnect was not able to establish a connection to the specified secure gateway. Please try connect again and and VPN Establishement Capability from. The error message ‘ AnyConnect was not able to establish a connection to the specified secure gateway ’ appears when users try to connect to a VPN using the AnyConnect Client.
Date: Oct 10, 2013
By: Mike Khzouz (Mike@bostonIT.com)
Scenario:
When using the Linux Cisco AnyConnect client x64 (like MAC, Ubuntu, Redhat RHEL and Debian) you might get the error above or if you connect through command like you might get the following errors:
Resolution:
1- Before you start troubleshooting the issue on the client side, make sure SSL certificates are installed and configured properly on the ASA. Go to http://www.digicert.com/help/ and test your server SSL certificate, if you see any issues, talk to your system admin to fix. In addition to your company SSL certificate, intermediate certificate from the ssl provider needs to be installed on the asa too, and that web tool can show you any issues in that regard (this is a common issue - missing intermediate cert) .
2- Important: Upgrade to the latest Cisco AnyConnect client. You can download that from the cisco TAC site but you need a username and a password. The latest version of Anyconnect as of this article is 3.1.04066.
3- In one of the cases the Cisco ASA had a Go Daddy SSL Certificate. Copying Go Daddy certificate from that Linux SSL Certificate folder to Cisco SSL certificate folder on the linux machine forced Anyconnect to trust that certificate.
sudo cp /etc/ssl/certs/Go* /opt/.cisco/certificates/ca/
If you are using a different 3rd party SSL certificate on the ASA, then you need to copy that certificate the same way
You can also copy all the certificates from /etc/ssl/certs/ to /opt/.cisco/certificates/ca/ if you are not sure what certificate you are using.
If you get this error in Windows make sure you stop Internet Sharing service in Windows services
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Richard osman twitter. Scenario:
When using the Linux Cisco AnyConnect client x64 (like MAC, Ubuntu, Redhat RHEL and Debian) you might get the error above or if you connect through command like you might get the following errors:
Resolution:
Anyconnect Secure Gateway Error
1- Before you start troubleshooting the issue on the client side, make sure SSL certificates are installed and configured properly on the ASA. Go to http://www.digicert.com/help/ and test your server SSL certificate, if you see any issues, talk to your system admin to fix. In addition to your company SSL certificate, intermediate certificate from the ssl provider needs to be installed on the asa too, and that web tool can show you any issues in that regard (this is a common issue – missing intermediate cert) .
2- Important: Upgrade to the latest Cisco AnyConnect client. You can download that from the cisco TAC site but you need a username and a password. The latest version of Anyconnect as of this article is 3.1.04066.
3- In one of the cases the Cisco ASA had a Go Daddy SSL Certificate. Copying Go Daddy certificate from that Linux SSL Certificate folder to Cisco SSL certificate folder on the linux machine forced Anyconnect to trust that certificate.
Anyconnect Cannot Confirm Secure Gateway
sudo cp /etc/ssl/certs/Go* /opt/.cisco/certificates/ca/
Anyconnect Was Not Able To Establish Connection To The Specified Secure Gateway Windows 10
If you are using a different 3rd party SSL certificate on the ASA, then you need to copy that certificate the same way
You can also copy all the certificates from /etc/ssl/certs/ to /opt/.cisco/certificates/ca/ if you are not sure what certificate you are using.
If you get this error in Windows make sure you stop Internet Sharing service in Windows services
Anyconnect Was Not Able To Establish A Connection To The Specified Secure Gateway Linux
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