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by jacquesm 4113 days ago
One company I work with has a firewall of a certain brand. It only works with windows or a mac, you can't connect to it from a command line it needs some stupid app that you download and install just to make a VPN connection.

Not having a unix specific build system work on windows seems to be pretty much the expected behaviour. As opposed to a firewall that runs linux internally requiring windows or OS/X to talk to it...
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vacri 4113 days ago
I struggled with Cisco AnyConnect's linux client until I eventually found the open-source OpenConnect replacement. The Cisco website even detected that I ran linux and offered the linux client for download, whereupon it dutifully pushed the Windows client... The crappy linux client I did have had to come from our cloud vendor.

OpenConnect 'just worked', thankfully.

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jacquesm 4113 days ago
The one I'm battling is a Fisher-Price based firewall from a company called Palo-Alto. It makes the complex simple and the simple complex.
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