Guest VPN connection issues

[Peggaweng]

Hi,

I have a VMware Fusion macOS 10.14 vm that I was using before I upgraded to Big Sur (on the host Mac) without any issues.

After upgrading my host to Big Sur and Fusion to 12.1.0 some of my VPN connections (in the guest) no longer work correctly.

I have Shimo with Cisco IPSEC connections and they make a successful connection to the VPN but I am unable to connect to any servers on the VPN destination end. The connection times out. I usually use ssh to connect to them.

Has anyone got any ideas what this issue might be?

As a test, I installed a Big Sur VM in Parallels and the same Shimo profile works fine from that. I am assuming it's a VMware network issue?

Thanks in advance for any help 🙂

[Peggaweng]

To add some more details. I have Pulse Secure VPNs and Cisco AnyConnect VPNs that still work fine.

Seems to only be related to IPSEC connections? I also added the same connection that doesn't work into the Network settings in System Preferences and still have the same issue.

[Peggaweng]

bump

[xray64]

Having the same issue: Big Sur 11.1, Fusion 12.1.0

From Guest operating systems, I can no longer access sites on the other side of the VPN, regular internet connectivity works fine.

I am also using Shimo -and- OpenVPN for various VPN targets. Both of these products will no longer allow the guest operating systems to connect successfully.

[xray64]

There is THIS in the release notes: will this be addressed?

Known Issues

The virtual machine (VM) cannot access the same network as the host while macOS Big Sur host is connected to the virtual private network (VPN)

If the Big Sur host is connected to VPN, then the VM cannot access the same network as that of the host.

Workaround: Connect to the VPN in the VM instead of connecting to the VPN on the host.

[er_sanj]

Lol Is this a workaround?