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Running Juniper SSL-VPN on 64-bit Linux

(15 February 2007)

Sun does not provide 64-bit Web Start support. Additionally the Network Connect VPN client is 32-bit. Our best bet to make the SSL VPN client work on the x64 platform is to provide it with all the 32-bit dependencies it needs.

My Test platform: FC6 x64 Base + Firefox + Dev Tools (Athlon 3000+ / nforce 3 / nvidia MX440 / 1 GB / 20 GB HDD)

Download and install 32-bit Java

Download and install 32-bit Firefox Install required dependencies for 32-bit Firefox
  • yum -y install compat-libstdc++-33.i386
Configure JAVA Plugin
  • in /opt/firefox/plugins
  • ln -s /usr/java/jre1.5.0_11/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so
Install required dependencies for Network Connect (SSL VPN)
  • yum install compat-libstdc++-296.i386
Launch 32-bit Firefox Happy VPNing

Where I am with all this

The above was written by a colleague back in 2007 and is provided here for your Googling entertainment. I don't have a 64-bit Linux node to play with this so can't comment on it's veracity.

Updates below posted when people send them to me, without comment.


21 March 2009

Email from reader Tarun Kothuri:

Just for your information :

With the release of Sun Java 6 Update 12, there is an official 64bit browser plugin for java.

I have been trying to get Juniper VPN (Client v6.0.0) to work by launching Network Connect via 64bit browser/Java plugin. It starts off installing well, but somehow the connection fails and i don't see the connection dialog.

I am still troubleshooting (on Fedora Core 10), installed various 32 bit libraries including, compat-libstdc++ 3.3 & 296, , zlib x86, xterm....

After some more searching I found a script at >>http://mad-scientist.us/juniper.html which is pretty successful at launching network connect once the files have been copied onto the system.

Just had to install some dependencies and create a copy of a 32bit JVM solely for invoking this program. (my system wide JRE and browser plugin are still 64bit).

23 January 2012

Email from Dan Kegal:

For what it's worth, here's a script to solve that problem using a chroot jail; it's specific to Ubuntu 11.10, and uses almost a gigabyte of disk space, but what the heck, maybe it's still worth mentioning.

>>http://kegel.com/linux/web32.sh.txt

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