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SSL Network Extender Technical Level
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Table of Contents

  • Overview
  • Supported Security Gateways
  • Endpoint Platforms
  • Linux Supported Platforms
  • Related Links and Solutions

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Overview

SSL Network Extender is a secure connectivity framework for remote access to a corporate network. SSL Network Extender uses a thin VPN client installed on the user's remote computer that connects to an SSL-enabled web server. The web server and the client are in the same VPN. SSL Network Extender is downloaded automatically from the Mobile Access portal to the endpoint machines, so that client software does not have to be pre-installed and configured on users' PCs and laptops. Remote users access the portal from a Web browser with https://<Gateway_IP>/sslvpn, where <Gateway_IP> is one of these:
  • FQDN that resolves to the IP address of the Security Gateway
  • IP address of the Security Gateway
Remote users that use HTTP are automatically redirected to the portal using HTTPS.

Note: SSL Network Extender requires that Java is installed on the endpoint computer. Java is not installed on Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion). For more information, see sk65144 - SSL Network Extender - Java Availablity.


Supported Security Gateways

This hotfix can be installed on top of Security Gateways starting from R76.


Endpoint Platforms

SSL Network Extender is supported on these Operating Systems:

Windows

  • XP Home and Professional (SP2, SP3) (32-bit and 64-bit)
  • Windows 7 (including SP1) Ultimate, Enterprise, Professional, and Home (32-bit and 64-bit)
  • Windows 8.1 update 1 (32-bit and 64-bit)
  • Windows 10 (32-bit and 64-bit)

Note: SSL Network Extender is not supported on 64-bit browsers in Windows.

macOS

  • Mac OS X 10.6.8 (Snow Leopard) (32-bit and 64-bit)
  • Mac OS X 10.7, 10.7.1, 10.7.2, 10.7.3, 10.7.4, 10.7.5 (Lion) (32-bit and 64-bit)
  • OS X 10.8, 10.8.1, 10.8.2 (Mountain Lion) (64-bit)
  • OS X 10.9.x (Mavericks)
  • OS X 10.10 (Yosemite)
  • OS X 10.11 (El Capitan)
  • macOS 10.12 (Sierra)
  • macOS 10.13 (High Sierra)
  • macOS 10.14 (Mojave)
  • macOS 10.15 (Catalina)

Linux

  • Ubuntu 11.10 and higher (32-bit and 64-bit)
  • openSUSE 11.4 and higher (32-bit and 64-bit)
  • Fedora 15 and higher (32-bit and 64-bit) (Requires xterm (standard terminal emulator) for deployment)
  • RHEL 5.7 and 6.1 and higher (32-bit and 64-bit)


Note: All Linux OSs require Oracle JRE to install.
Use the snx -h command to make sure that the SSL Network Extender client is installed correctly.


Linux Supported Platforms

Latest Linux Distribution 32-bit Prerequisites 64-bit Prerequisites Installation command

Ubuntu 14.04/16.04/16.10/17.04

libpam0g:i386

libx11-6:i386

libstdc++6:i386

libstdc++5:i386

libpam0g:i386

libx11-6:i386

libstdc++6:i386

libstdc++5:i386

libnss3-tools (certutil) 

 Apt-get
openSUSE 11.4 libstdc++33
  1. pam-32bit
  2. libstdc++33 32bit
  3. Install all dependencies required by pam and libstdc++33 packages.
  
openSuSE 12.2 compat-libstdc++
  1. pam-32bit
  2. pam-modules-32bit
  3. compat-libstdc++.i586
  
Fedora 15
  1. xterm.i686
  2. libXaw.so.7
  3. libstdc++.so.5
  1. Xterm.86_64 (with libXaw.86_64 dependency)
  2. libX11.i686
  3. pam-devel.i686 (which contains: libaudit.so.1, libcrack.so.2, lindb-4.8.so, libselinux.so.1, libpam.so.0)
  4. libstdc++.so.5
  
Fedora 16/18
  1. xterm.i686
  2. libstdc++.so.5
  1. xterm.x86_64 (with libXaw.86_64 dependency)
  2. elf_utils-libelf.i686
  3. libX11.i686
  4. libaudit.so.1
  5. libcrack.so.2
  6. libdb-5.3.so
  7. libselinux.so.1
  8. libpam.so.0
  9. libstdc++.so.5
    		 dnf install <lib_name> 
    RHEL 7.3 / 7.4 None Same as Fedora 16 64-bit

    yum-config-manager --enable rhel-7-server-optional-rpms

    yum install
    RHEL 6.1 Same as Fedora 16 32-bit Same as Fedora 16 64-bit  

    For Mobile Access Portal Agent prerequisites on Linux, refer to sk119772.


     

    Applies To:
    • This solution sk65210 replaces sk41569, sk32162.

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