Cisco recommends OpenConnect

[Daniel Lenski]

On Fri, Jun 3, 2022 at 1:44 PM Randall Sindlinger
<randall.sindlinger at ssaihq.com> wrote:
>
> If you aren't aware, I just found that Cisco's DEVNET has a genuine recommendation to use
> OpenConnect.

Cisco's own IP phones, at least model "SPA-525g", use the OpenConnect
client. https://gitlab.com/openconnect/ocserv/-/issues/51#note_12193848

Yes, you read that right: despite the proprietary AnyConnect clients
and servers having been developed at the same company, someone at
Cisco apparently found it easier to make their own IP phones speak
that protocol by using OpenConnect's reimplementation of that
protocol. Which is frankly not that surprising to me… from working on
OpenConnect for years and studying many proprietary VPN clients, all
the evidence I've seen suggests they're all dumpster fires of bad
designed-by-committee code.

What's the opposite of "dogfooding"? 🤔

Dan