Now: BSD and Juniper VPN, was Re: Juniper SSL VPN Training Recommendations

[Kevin Wilcox <wilcoxkm () APPSTATE EDU>]

On 12 February 2010 18:18, Julian Y. Koh <kohster () northwestern edu> wrote:

> At 6:01 PM -0500 2/12/10, Kevin Wilcox wrote:

> > On 12 February 2010 17:40, Julian Y. Koh <kohster () northwestern edu> wrote:

> > > Indeed,
> > > the ease of setup and use was one of the major reasons why we picked
> > > Juniper over its competitors in our eval.

> > Is this the case for all platforms?

> It's a web GUI, so yeah, it works reasonably well from all platforms.

For future reference, being web-based is not an indicator of any level
of support or usability. If the browser on my Blackberry or
lynx/links2 from a Unix CLI can't access it, it is a pointless web
page as far as I'm concerned - and there are many, many sites out on
the web that break without flash, Java and all sorts of other crud
that have no business being on the WWW.

>  When
> we first deployed, there were just a couple little pieces of the interface
> that seemed to only like working with IE on Windows, but with various
> revisions over the years those seems to have disappeared.  At least the
> ones that we had encountered anyway.  Firefox seems to work just fine for
> everything we need in this respect, and I also use Safari with no problems.

Based on other posts there is a JVM component and this, I believe, is
where the true sticking point for "useful" will be. It's not really
"web friendly" if it requires more than a simple browser. Can anyone
verify *reliable* FreeBSD or OpenBSD connectivity without having to
hack up Linux emulation, a Windows VM, etc?

Title changed so that this isn't a total hijack of the thread.

kmw

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