ubuntu and cisco anyconnect

Our office uses cisco anyconnect for vpn. And of course like most offices, we only officially support windows clients. Cisco makes clients for lots of OS's, but our sysadmin only has it configured for the MS monster.

So I wanted to connect to it with Ubuntu, and it was actually pretty easy. I just had to install:

• openconnect
• network-manager-openconnect
• network-manager-openconnect-gnome

I could then go to the network manager - vpn connections - configure vpn.

• Click add.
• Select cisco anyconnect compatible vpn (openconnect)
• Click create.
• Entered the IP of the vpn gateway
• Entered the connection name
• Clicked save.

To connect, just click on network manager - vpn connections and select the one you just added and enter your login creds.