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Now: BSD and Juniper VPN, was Re: Juniper SSL VPN Training Recommendations
From: Kevin Wilcox <wilcoxkm () APPSTATE EDU>
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2010 10:34:08 -0500
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 -- Kevin Wilcox Network Infrastructure and Control Systems Appalachian State University Email: wilcoxkm () appstate edu Office: 828.262.6259
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- Now: BSD and Juniper VPN, was Re: Juniper SSL VPN Training Recommendations Kevin Wilcox (Feb 15)
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- Re: Now: BSD and Juniper VPN, was Re: Juniper SSL VPN Training Recommendations Julian Y. Koh (Feb 15)