Cisco IP Communicator and Microsoft Direct Access Compatibility

[ing_ivandez]

Hello engineers!

I kindly ask for your help to know if a Cisco IP Communicator SoftPhone could run through the Microsoft Direct Access Service instead of a traditional VPN connection.

Thank you for your comments!

[Aaron Harrison · Accepted solution]

Hi

IIRC DirectAccess is very much reliant on  IPV6 and you are unlikely to be running your CUCM system over IPV6. I think you need some sort of third party box to allow access to IPV4 servers, which is likely to be another source of compatibility problems.

Regards

Aaron

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[ing_ivandez]

Hi Aaron

Thanks for your answer, effectively the issue is that CIPC does not have an option to direct traffic to an IPv6 destination, so I was researching and maybe with this two options (from different vendors), I can do it:

Microsoft's Forefront Unified Access Gateway

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/740.uag-directaccess-and-ipv4-only-networks.aspx

Centrify's DirectSecure

http://www.centrify.com/blogs/tomkemp/what_is_microsoft_directaccess_and_unix_linux_interoperability.asp

but well, I will contact this vendors in order to know better his solutions.
Thanks again!

[Dwayne Whitehead]

Hi there,

Did you manage to get this working in your organisation? Seeking some info please :-)

Thanks

Dwayne

[Tim Lillis]

/bump Any luck with this? Would love to get softphones working over directaccess

[cfizz34cisco]

Any luck getting this to work?