SonicWall Mobile Connect

SonicWall Cloud

About this app

SonicWall Mobile Connect™ provides users full network-level access to corporate and academic resources over encrypted SSL VPN connections. The client provides anytime, anywhere access to critical applications such as email, virtual desktop sessions and other Android applications.

REQUIREMENTS:
SonicWall Mobile Connect requires Android 6.0 (Marshmallow) or higher. Mobile Connect is a free app, but requires a concurrent user license on one of the following SonicWall solutions in order to function properly:

• SonicWall firewall appliances including the TZ, NSA, E‐Class NSA, and SuperMassive Series running SonicOS 5.9 or higher.

• SonicWall Secure Mobile Access 100 Series / SRA appliances running 9.0 or higher.

• SonicWall Secure Mobile Access 1000 Series / E‐Class SRA appliances running 12.1 or higher.

For more information on SonicWall Next-Generation Firewall and SMA solutions, please visit www.sonicwall.com.

Ratings and reviews

There is a bug in this app. If using SonicWALL's SSL-VPN to connect to a small office network that does not have internal DNS, you must use WAN DNS addresses (such as 9.9.9.9, etc). However, when connected, the SSLVPN client in split tunnel mode, you cannot reach the WAN DNS addresses, which means when you're on the VPN, you get no internet. The problem specifically occurs on Mobile Connect for Android, not iOS or Windows. The only current workarounds are 1) Use tunnel all mode, which severely limits performance, or 2) Set up an internal DNS server, which is not always practical.

For everyone having an issue with the app connecting and no traffic passing, there was a firmware update around April that removed compatibility for the Compression Control Protocol - which is the protocol that Android phones use for SSL VPNs. The most recent firmware version, 6.5.4.7-83n, includes a fix that re-enables this protocol. Once you install the firmware update, traffic should pass through the app again. Once I installed the firmware update, the app started working as expected.

User input is not visible with dark theme enabled. Needs to be a toggle in the app to override what theme the app itself uses or just configured to not use a white text on a white background. Been way too long for a fix to come on this. Good thing I have presaved inputs or this thing would be totally unusable and yeah this includes the MFA inputs each time you use it.

What's new

Mobile Connect 5.0.19 contains the following updates:
• Upgrade OpenSSL
• Bug fixes

Please see the release notes on the SonicWall web site for more information.