AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client. Do I need to have paid account with cisco to download this vpn client?

VPN
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As title says. I need client for linux.

https://software.cisco.com/download/home/286281283/type/282364313/release/4.10.08029?i=!pp

I went to this page. It asked me to login. I have treid to signup for account using register account. I am getting There was an unsupported response from server error in registration.

Use case - I need to connect to clients network using this VPN. Their netowrk guy is OOO and no one have any clue how to download the client for linux.

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Might be able to download it from their firewall. Use a browser to connect to what the anyconnect client would connect to, login, and it should give you the correct client… if they set it up.

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yes you need an active service contract to download it

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Orgs need a support contract to download new clients from Cisco, but they can distribute them internally and to people that need to use them. Talk to whatever org you need to use it for.

You might have some luck with openconnect on Linux assuming they aren’t using SAML/SSO auth.

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Thank you so much. This is purely command line client. no GUI nonsense.

sudo openconnect --protocol=anyconnect --authgroup=<group-name> <vpn-server>

And guess what - its compatible with lot more than just cisco. This is great!!

sudo openconnect 
No server specified
Usage:  openconnect [options] <server>
Open client for multiple VPN protocols, version v8.20-1

Using GnuTLS 3.7.3. Features present: TPMv2, PKCS#11, RSA software token, HOTP software token, TOTP software token, Yubikey OATH, System keys, DTLS, ESP
      --config=CONFIGFILE         Read options from config file
  -V, --version                   Report version number
  -h, --help                      Display help text

Set VPN protocol:
      --protocol=anyconnect       Compatible with Cisco AnyConnect SSL VPN, as well as ocserv (default)
      --protocol=nc               Compatible with Juniper Network Connect
      --protocol=gp               Compatible with Palo Alto Networks (PAN) GlobalProtect SSL VPN
      --protocol=pulse            Compatible with Pulse Connect Secure SSL VPN
      --protocol=f5               Compatible with F5 BIG-IP SSL VPN
      --protocol=fortinet         Compatible with FortiGate SSL VPN
      --protocol=array            Compatible with Array Networks SSL VPN

OpenConnect is an SSL VPN client initially created to support Cisco’s

AnyConnect SSL VPN. It has since been extended to support the Pulse Connect

Secure VPN (formerly known as Juniper Network Connect or Junos Pulse), the Palo

Alto Networks GlobalProtect SSL VPN, F5 Big-IP SSL VPN, Fortinet Fortigate SSL

VPN and Array Networks AG SSL VPN.

And once connection is successful - you get pretty nice message in end

CSTP connected. DPD 30, Keepalive 20
UDP SO_SNDBUF: 27800
DTLS initialised. DPD 30, Keepalive 20
Established DTLS connection (using GnuTLS). Ciphersuite (DTLS1.2)-(ECDHE-RSA)-(AES-256-GCM).
Configured as XXXX, with SSL connected and DTLS connected
Session authentication will expire at Fri Nov 22 22:24:26 202