Connect Cisco VPN over CLI using Ubuntu vpn client - vpnc

Below CLI steps works nicely to connect Cisco VPN using vpnc Cisco generic client


VPN : Cisco ASA55xx
OS: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
Client: Ubuntu generic vpnc client [3]

1-Enabled universe source on Ubuntu [2]

2-install vpnc only or network-manager-vpnc (includes vpnc)

   apt-get install network-manager-vpnc

3-Import pcf profile to vpn configuration

   pcf2vpn /tmp/your_pcf_profile.pcf >/etc/vpnc/vpn1_dc1.conf

4-check username is correct.

# cat /etc/vpnc/vpn1_dc1.conf
IPSec gateway vpn1dc1.company.com
IPSec ID my-company-token

IPSec secret

Xauth username your_name

5-Connect to vpn [1] 

# vpnc-connect /etc/vpnc/vpn1_dc1.conf

                    OR

# vpnc-connect vpn1_dc1  (just profile file name  without .conf)

Enter password for your_namei@vpn1dc1.company.com:

Connect Banner:

VPNC started in background (pid: 7422)...

#

References:
[1] http://man.cx/vpnc-connect(8)
[2] http://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2013/08/install-cisco-vpn-client-ubuntu-13-04-13-10/

[3] http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/vpnc

[4] http://www.cs.umd.edu/faq/vpn/ubuntu/