Using the VPN in Penn State University with Openconnect

Since 2021, the VPN software Cisco Anyconnect was replaced by GlobalProtect in Penn State University. Although there are different versions of GlobalProtect provided by the university, there is no install package for ArchLinux.  

ArchLinux users may install the globalprotect-openconnect from AUR, which has a GUI for setting up VPN. However, the gateway selection is not available on it and people may fail to connect to the server.

To address this issue, you can use openconnect directly (which is a pre-requisite package for GlobalProtect). More specifically, use the following command in terminal:

openconnect -v secure-connect.psu.edu --protocol=gp

If it says "unrecoverable I/O error", add "sudo" at the beginning of the command.

Then, it will ask you to enter the PSU username and the password. 

Enter login credentials
Username: txt51
Password: 

After that, there is a gateway selection:

GATEWAY: [Faculty/Staff (Unmanaged Host)|Student|INTERNAL]

Enter "INTERNAL", and the connection will be established.