Re: BorderManager - Where do we go from here ?

[Craig Johnson]

I'm still hoping to hear an announcement on BorderManager on Linux,
which was on the Novell roadmap at least last summer. (One of my
clients attended a briefing in Utah and saw that).

There's nothing I know of that really replaces the product in its
entirety, particularly the browsing control via eDir objects with
single signon (Clntrust). There are products that use LDAP lookups,
and RADIUS-type of browser logins, some with client-side pieces that
pick up a windows login. Astaro was the one product that was trying to
achieve the most compatibility that I know of.

Craig Johnson
Novell Knowledge Partner
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[marck]

I've lost the hope that Novell will move to produce something
interesting. The questions that now raise are the following:

How to migrate (tools or restart from scratch)
When migrate
Where to migrate
--->>> If anyone has tools for migration would be nice!

My favorite is an open source solution iptables and squid (things I use
from Bordermanager). With these solutions I'm no more anxious to get an
EOS /EOL.

Regards
Marc

[Craig Johnson]

In article <rsargean...@no-mx.forums.novell.com>, Rsargeant wrote:
> I agree with everyone's comments and I just wish Novell would end the
> speculation and tell us all what's happening.....are they or are they
> not developing a pure Linux version of BorderManager!??
>
> We can only hang on for so long! :(
>
All we can do is keep asking for such a product. If Novell see $$ in
demand for it, they'll make it.

[Craig Johnson]

In article <Arjen_Rob...@no-mx.forums.novell.com>, Arjen Robben
wrote:
> If they've stopped developing NetWare, they'll stop BorderManager.
>
They've actually been close to having BM on Linux for some time now.
One of the reasons for imanagerizing BM 3.9 was to make it easy to
migrate a NetWare BM 3.9 server to a Linux BM 4.x server.