Juniper Secure Access SSL VPN access from FreeBSD?

[Gary Palmer]

On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 08:12:51PM +0400, Lev Serebryakov wrote:
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> On 15.09.2014 20:02, Gary Palmer wrote:
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> >> If I want to connect to my workstation at $work, I'm forced to
> >> use Juniper Secure Access SSL VPN + rdesktop. I connect to our
> >> office JunOS gateway with browser, and run RDesktop from it. But
> >> it requires to use supported OS (Windows / MacOS X / Linux), as
> >> tunnel is created via binary browser plugin.
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> >> Is it possible to emulate this on FreeBSD? rdesktop from ports
> >> should work as client, as I access standard Windows system, but I
> >> need some way to emulate this VPN tunnel. Is it possible?
> > 
> > Did you try any of the results from Google?  Search for "juniper
> > ssl vpn open source" (without the quotes) seems to show up some
> > possibilities.
>  Yep, but all of them based on fact, that it works under Linux. For
> example, here are script (jvpn.pl), which emulates browser, but it
> loads Linux-specific share object from browser plugin (libncui.so) and
> calls Linux binary (ncsvc), and it will not natively work under FreeBSD.
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>  Linux emulator is my last resort, but maybe, here are some other ways?


Not that work reliably.  I know someone who had to use a Juniper VPN
solution and got it working under Linux without any binary plugins,
but he went on vacation and when he came back a couple of weeks later 
he couldn't get it working again and struggled for days before giving up
and running Windows in a VM.

As best I understand it, it's a standard IPSEC VPN, but getting past the
authentication to get to the IPSEC session is the tricky part.

Regards,

Gary