I think I may have finally found a solution to my problems with IPsec VPN on Windows8. When I first installed Windows8 the Cisco IPsec VPN client worked fine for some time – I’m not exactly sure how but it did. Unfortunately after a few weeks while I could still connect to the VPN I couldn’t actually access anything across the tunnel. RDP, ping…nothing would get through.

I resorted to using Shrew Soft VPN client for a while which mostly worked but I found with some VPNs it just wouldn’t connect and I would have to use a Windows7 VM to connect to those. Today I have decided to revisit the whole situation and came accross this post .

I didn’t have the Cisco VPN client installed at that point so went straight onto installing Citrix DNE. But if you already have the client you might want to install it first.

1. Download and install Citrix DNE.

2. Install Cisco IPsec client.

That’s all you should need to do but I’ll report back after a few weeks just in case it mysteriously breaks again. In the meantime if anyone has a better solution I’d be really glad for it.