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The file is in INI file format and contains information about a VPN connection which is necessary for the client software, such as the username, password, tunneling port, DNS settings. The .pcf-files were originally used for Cisco Systems VPN Client, but are now used also in other VPN systems to distribute configuration information to clients.
Cisco Systems VPN Client is a software application for connecting to virtual private networks based on Internet Key Exchange version 1. On July 29, 2011, Cisco announced the end of life of the product. No further product updates were released after July 30, 2012, and support ceased on July 29, 2014. [4]
The OpenConnect project also offers an Cisco AnyConnect-compatible server, ocserv, [20] and thus offers a full client-server VPN solution. OpenConnect and ocserv now implement an extended version of the Cisco AnyConnect VPN protocol, which has been proposed as an Internet Standard . [ 21 ]
Virtual private network (VPN) is a network architecture for virtually extending a private network (i.e. any computer network which is not the public Internet) across one or multiple other networks which are either untrusted (as they are not controlled by the entity aiming to implement the VPN) or need to be isolated (thus making the lower network invisible or not directly usable).
Cisco Systems, Inc. (using the trademark Cisco) is an American multinational digital communications technology conglomerate corporation headquartered in San Jose, California. Cisco develops, manufactures, and sells networking hardware , software , telecommunications equipment and other high-technology services and products. [ 4 ]
The ISAKMP/IKE implementation was jointly developed by Cisco and Microsoft. [16] Microsoft Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 partially support IKEv2 (RFC 7296) as well as MOBIKE (RFC 4555) through the VPN Reconnect feature (also known as Agile VPN). There are several open source implementations of IPsec with associated IKE capabilities.
Across Unix-like operating systems many different configuration-file formats exist, with each application or service potentially having a unique format, but there is a strong tradition of them being in human-editable plain text, and a simple key–value pair format is common.
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