Network Connect has been replaced by Junos Pulse for some time already, but GNU/Linux users were left in the dark, since there is currently no official package provided by Juniper for Junos Pulse on GNU/Linux.

Fortunately there is OpenConnect, which makes it possible for GNU/Linux users to connect to a Juniper SSL VPN endpoint.

Here are instructions for setting up OpenConnect to establish a connection to a remote Juniper SSL VPN endpoint.

These instructions were tested on a Arch Linux, system running Linux kernel 4.0.5-1-ARCH.

First, let’s install the needed packages.

$ sudo pacman -S git openconnect python2-pip

Next we will install the Python Juniper VPN Authenticator, which is a script that authenticates with a Juniper SSL VPN endpoint and generates a session cookie, which in turn is passed to a VPN client.

We also need to install mechanize, which is a Python module required by the Python Juniper VPN Authenticator.

$ sudo pip2 install mechanize

Now, clone the Python Juniper VPN Authenticator repository.

$ git clone https://github.com/russdill/juniper-vpn-py

You can now connect to a remote Juniper SSL VPN endpoint by running the command below.

$ sudo python2 juniper-vpn-py/juniper-vpn.py --host <sslvpn.example.org> \
       --user <username> --stdin DSID=%DSID% openconnect --juniper %HOST% --cookie-on-stdin