How to prevent Cisco AnyConnect from disconnecting when locking screen My Mac Book pro with 10.11.2 has this annoying feature that it disconnects Cisco AnyConnect VPN every time I lock the screen.

I found some instructions on how to prevent Wi-Fi disconnection when locking the screen, but I could not apply those instructions to the AnyConnect network. I´m usually connected with Ethernet cable, if that matters.

Is there some way to disable such feature?
TL;DR

Launch Terminal and run:

ifconfig | grep -B 6 'status: active' | head -n 1 | cut -d : -f 1


Then run (replace en0 below with the output of the command above):

cd /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Versions/Current/Resources
sudo ./airport en0 prefs DisconnectOnLogout=NO
sudo pmset -a sleep 0




Long version

I am on MacOS Mojave (10.14).
For me this helped against automatically disconnecting from Cisco AnyConnect while on WiFi:

Open the Terminal app and paste:

ifconfig | grep -B 6 'status: active' | head -n 1 | cut -d : -f 1


This returned:

en0


Then type (replace en0 on line 2 with the returned value above):

cd /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Versions/Current/Resources
sudo ./airport en0 prefs DisconnectOnLogout=NO


Type your password.
Check if the setting was saved by typing:

sudo ./airport prefs


Which should return this:

AirPort preferences for en0:

DisconnectOnLogout=NO
Unable to retrieve JoinMode
JoinModeFallback=DoNothing
RememberRecentNetworks=YES
RequireAdminIBSS=NO
RequireAdminNetworkChange=NO
RequireAdminPowerToggle=NO
WoWEnabled=YES


DisconnectOnLogout should be set to NO.

Next, prevent the system from going to sleep after locking:

sudo pmset -a sleep 0


That should do the trick, worked for me.