So is FirePass for you? If you're looking to give mobile users secure access without the overhead of setting up a IPsec VPN, FirePass can do the job. It's easy on the end user and well worth the investment when you consider the potential cost of sending unencrypted data across the Internet.
Hugh Smith is an assistant professor at the California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo and a member of the Cal Poly Network Performance Research Lab. Students Scott Thomas and Newman Chan are members of the Cal Poly NetPRL. Write to them at [email protected].
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FirePass was acquired by F5 Networks when F5 purchased uRoam in July. F5 has added a number of features for this release, including support for LDAP 3 (version 2 is already supported), automatic cleanup of kiosk users' cache and tempfiles, and accessibility to X Window applications through a Web browser without having to preinstall client software.
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