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Wednesday, 25 January 2023

CISCO AnyConnect VPN Client in Ubuntu

OpenConnect is a client for Cisco’s AnyConnect VPN. It is free software, and is released under the GNU LGPL v2.1 . Getting connected to an AnyConnect VPN is easy with OpenConnect and the TUN/TAP kernel module that is built into the Linux kernel.
 
1. First run command below to active th TUN module:
 
sudo /sbin/modprobe tun
 
2. Install OpenConnect:
 
sudo apt-get install openconnect
 
3. Connect to VPN, run:
 
sudo openconnect yourvpn.example.com
 
It prompts you to type in username and password. Once these are authenticated, the VPN connection is established.

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