First, forgive me for being frustrated but I've been banging my head against this for a very long time and have made virtually no progress.
There is so much mis-information on the Internet and Cisco's own support site has bits and pieces everywhere (I've found at least 5 support pages in Cisco that address this subject), none work or are directly targeted at what I would consider is a major use case for this product. I can see from the many posts everywhere that getting L2TP/IPSEC to work is a major problem, requiring many configuration steps that all have to be perfect and there seems to be some trick to get it to work that most people struggle with. Most of the advice out there is impertinent and highly technical but doesn't work.
I would like to know if there is any consolidated instructions that WORK to create a VPN server on the 5505 using the ASDM and also how to set your Windows 7 (or 2008) client to work with it.
Like I've said, I've spent hours and hours on this and have yet to get anything to work.
I have a brand new 5505 connected directly to DSL (static IP) that I ran the wizard on and followed the best advice I could find (by the way there's TONS of information on getting XP to work but afaik, this does NOT work for windows 7). Now that I've tried various things without success, I believe I've gotten it so fouled up I need to reset to factory defaults and start over.
I also have another brand new 5505 connected to a different DSL line. Behind that firewall, I have both windows 7 clients and windows 2008 server. I've tried lots of different things to get these to work including the registry hacks (which, if indeed is required, I seriously can't believe that Cisco hasn't given us a tool for).
I have tried to use the ASDM to do all my programming as I find the CLI to be extremely error prone and virtually incomprehensible.
So, what the world needs is one place that gives all the instructions on what to do, step-by-step that really work for this simple use case of windows connecting to the ASA.
This is my first time posting so please forgive my frustrations and I am grateful in advance for any help you can offer.
