03-11-2020 11:03 AM
A client on a MAC laptop running Anyconnect client version 4.8.02042 is getting "The VPN connection to the selected secure gateway requires a routable IPv6 physical adapter address. Please move to an IPv6 network and retry the connection or select
a different secure gateway" when client tried connecting to a VPN headend. After a while it seems to connect. We have both IPv4 and IPv6 enabled. I had the client disable IPv6 in the network properties, reboot the MAC and connect and it worked fine. Today with IPv6 disabled, the error message popped up again. Any recommendation, suggestions? This is the only client with this issue, we have hundreds of other client with both MAC and PC connecting successfully using the same version of Anyconnect client.
Thanks in advance.
03-11-2020 12:48 PM
Hi,
Based on my experience with weird MAC OS, i would just reinstall AnyConnect , with reboot after uninstalling, on that device if it's the only one with an error; in most cases the virtual NIC remains and behaves in a weird state. Is AnyConnect configured to connect to a FQDN? If so will the DNS server respond with both IPv4 and IPv6 mappings for the FQDN of the ASA? This could be the problem that device may prefer IPv6 to begin with, fail and use IPv4 instead. If the MAC Os does not need IPv6, you could disable IPv6 completely.
Regards,
Cristian Matei.
03-11-2020 02:18 PM
03-11-2020 02:54 PM
Hi,
I've seen it many times on Mac OS, especially after upgrades and/or AnyConnect version upgrade; something goes wrong between kernel and vNIC.
Regards,
Cristian Matei.
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