sonicwall

[slr]

thats great that they let you bring it in, but bad they wont let it out. :~(

Sonicwall only supports the windows os's, thats it, which in my mind they are 
losing a great deal, but thats another issue. so, no the anti-virus will not 
run on any *nix* that i am aware of, except for maybe Lindows. 

and the chance of opera working in the way you would like, will more than 
likely fail because as far as i know it is not browser dependant. if the 
anti-vurus is present and announces itself to the sonicwall, then the 
sonicwall will permit access to the internet. but if it is not present, then 
you know what happens, access denied.  

you may try using a public proxy, but once again you do not have the sonicwall 
anti-virus installed, and the sonicwall will more than likely deny access. i 
guess you could try installing the anti-virus under wine, what do you have to 
lose. i would be interested to find out if it will install. if it does then 
maybe i could install their VPN client as well. good luck

slr



On Thursday 06 June 2002 03:53 pm, Charlie Bullen wrote:
> Hi, I got my employer to let me bring my linux box to work to use but there
> is a problem. They have a sonic wall and I can't get through it to the net.
> If I can get it to work great, if not I can get no support from the office.
>  I have been using Konquerer and ran into a blank wall, no net access. I
> tried Lynx and got a message that I needed to download and install sonic
> wall anti virus, but I couldn't do that with Lynx.
>
> They have sonicwall set to not allow internet access unless the client is
> running sonicwall antivirus.
>
> All the other workstations are Win98 or XP using IE 5.5 or 6.0.
>
> My idea is to install and try Opera withi tset to identify itself as IE. I
> am running wine and have had good results running windows programs on Linux
> but I wonder if sonic wall anti virus can run under linux (Suse 7.3)
>
> Any other suggestions or better yet solutions would be appreciated.
>
> This whole project is the result of 2 things, first I went to the Linux to
> Windows conversion presentation last week, thanks Matt, and second I have
> to use a windows XP home version box otherwise.
>
> Regards,
>
> Charlie