Citrix Gateway VPN clients and supported features

Important:

  • The legacy Citrix VPN client was built using Apple’s private VPN APIs that are now deprecated. VPN support in the Citrix SSO app for iOS and Citrix Secure Access agent for macOS is rewritten using Apple’s public Network Extension framework. Citrix Gateway plug-in and Citrix VPN for iOS and macOS are no longer supported. Citrix SSO app for iOS and Citrix Secure Access agent for macOS is the recommended VPN app to be used.

  • General availability of nFactor authentication support for Android devices would be available in one of the upcoming releases.

The following table lists some of the commonly used features supported for each VPN client.

Feature Citrix Secure Access for Windows Linux Citrix Secure Access for macOS SSO for iOS SSO for Android
Always On (user mode) Yes (11.1 and later) No No No Yes (via MDM) Android 7.0+
PAC file push Yes (12.0 and later) No Yes Yes No
Client proxy support Yes Yes No No Yes. See note 1
Max limit of Intranet Applications 512 128 No limit No limit No limit
Intranet IP (IIP) support Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Split tunnel ON Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Split tunnel reverse Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes. See note 5
Split DNS REMOTE No Yes Yes Yes Yes. See note 6
Split DNS BOTH Yes No Yes Yes Yes. See note 6
FQDN based split tunnel Yes-Only ON (13.0 and later) No Yes Yes Yes. See note 5
Client idle timeout Yes Yes Yes No No
Endpoint analysis Yes Yes Yes No No
Device certificate (classic) Yes No Yes No No
nFactor authentication Yes (12.1 and later) No Yes Yes Yes. See note 3
EPA (nFactor) Yes (12.1 and later) No Yes No No
Device certificate (nFactor) Yes (12.1 and later) No Yes No No
Push notification Yes (12.1 and later) No No Yes Yes (device registration only)
OTP token autofill support. See note 2 No No No Yes Yes
DTLS support. See note 4 Yes (13.0 and later) No Yes Yes No

Note:

  1. Setting a proxy in the client configuration on the VPN virtual server in the gateway configuration for Android 10 and later is supported. Only basic HTTP proxy configuration with IP address and port is supported.
  2. Only QR code-scanned tokens are eligible for auto filling. Auto filling is not supported in the nFactor authentication flow.
  3. nFactor authentication support for Android devices is under preview and the feature is disabled, by default. Contact Citrix Support for enabling this feature. Customers must provide their Citrix Gateway’s FQDN to the support team for enabling nFactor authentication for Android devices.
  4. For details, see Configure DTLS VPN virtual server using SSL VPN virtual server.
  5. FQDN based split tunnel support and reverse split tunnel for Android devices is under preview and the feature is disabled, by default. Contact Citrix Support for enabling this feature. Customers must provide their Citrix Gateway’s FQDN to the support team for enabling it for Android devices.
  6. For Split DNS BOTH mode, DNS suffixes must be configured on the gateway and only DNS A record queries ending in those suffixes are sent to the gateway. Rest of the queries are resolved locally. Android Citrix SSO app also supports Split DNS LOCAL mode.
Citrix Gateway VPN clients and supported features

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