[EXTERNAL] Re: Cisco recommends OpenConnect

[Randall Sindlinger]

On Fri, 2022-06-03 at 16:16 -0700, Daniel Lenski wrote:
> 
> Cisco's own IP phones, at least model "SPA-525g", use the OpenConnect
> client. 
> https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2fgitlab.com%2fopenconnect%2focserv%2f-%2fissues%2f51%23note_12193848&c=E,1,wfoABW6JkcvKxUOu1iJuPFhN-2wLUBV48StvBGT4id5hw8ieKHBk3yJiY8GxFRALRNXBr92wpLD25JhLbgjvqduFCnm91xKmZae9H33K01EjkNfY&typo=1
> 
> 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. 

Thanks Dan - I'd found reference to that on the wikipedia page when I read it all the way through,
but the reference didn't give me a (clear) verification.

In any case, has this and the DevNet recommendation been added to the 
https://www.infradead.org/openconnect/ page?  I'm not sure where it would best fit; but I think it
would be invaluable to give users and potential users the knowledge that Cisco has all but formally
approved it.  It sure would have helped me, at least!

And - PS - maybe the opposite of dogfooding is catfooding; I can certainly vouch that my dog
*strongly* prefers the cat food, anyway.  :- D

Take care,
-Randall