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To install OpenConnect, you’ll need to ensure you have Homebrew installed on your Mac. If you do not already have Homebrew installed, visit https://brew.sh/ and follow the instructions for installation.

  1. Open Terminal (Applications > Utilities > Terminal).

  2. First, ensure Homebrew is up-to-date using the following command.

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    $ brew update
  3. After Homebrew finishes updating, run the following command to install OpenConnect.

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    $ brew install openconnect
  4. OpenConnect should now be installed.

Using OpenConnect

Once OpenConnect has been installed, you are ready to connect.

Info

For a list of available Realms, see Cisco AnyConnect VPN Realms

Starting OpenConnect

  1. To start the VPN connections enter the following command in Terminal, where $realm is the Realm you would like to connect to (e.g., anyconnect.uconn.edu/split or anyconnect.uconn.edu/priv).

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    sudo openconnect anyconnect.uconn.edu/$realm
  2. You will be prompted to enter your Password (for sudo), followed by your NetID and Password.

  3. Once entered, you will see a bunch of text, which is OpenConnect setting up your session. You can tell you are connected when you see the following message, with $IP_ADDRESS being the IP you receive from AnyConnect:

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Established DTLS connection (using GnuTLS). Ciphersuite (DTLS1.2)-(ECDHE-RSA)-(AES-256-GCM).
Configured as $IP_ADDRESS, with SSL connected and DTLS connected
Session authentication will expire at Thu Feb 24 04:47:42 2022

add host 137.99.22.58: gateway 192.168.1.1
add net 10.195.96.0: gateway 10.195.97.30
add net 52.202.147.91: gateway 10.195.97.30
add net 10.0.0.0: gateway 10.195.97.30
add net 137.99.0.0: gateway 10.195.97.30
add net 137.99.25.14: gateway 10.195.97.30
add net 137.99.203.20: gateway 10.195.97.30

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