I have published a new VPN 
plugin<https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/NetworkManager/VPN> for NetworkManager 
for the proprietary Cisco AnyConnect VPN service.  The code is available on 
GitHub at https://github.com/grahamwhiteuk/Networkmanager-anyconnect

NetworkManager-anyconnect is a very simple wrapper around the proprietary 
AnyConnect VPN cli binary.  The purpose is to be able to drive the proprietary 
connection from NetworkManager and therefore be able to take advantage of the 
integration offered both to the network stack and to the Linux desktop 
environment rather than having the user use a proprietary GUI to make VPN 
connections.

There is, obviously, already the NetworkManager-openconnect VPN plugin that is 
very capable of connecting to AnyConnect VPN gateways using the open source 
openconnect software.  While this is likely the preferred approach for most, 
given it's open source, there are certain situations where openconnect does not 
work and the user is forced to use AnyConnect.  One such example is when/if the 
VPN gateway is configured not to accept openconnect connections i.e. the 
gateway only accepts connections from the proprietary client.

More information about the new plugin, how to build it and make connections is 
available in the README on GitHub.

Regards,

Graham
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