Yes, BorderManager does authentication, and BM3 is supposed to do it
transparently. I can tell you this though: BorderManager is about as much
fun as a hard kick to the crotch. Usually when I have a problem and ask in
the Novell newsgroup for help, I am asked if I have loaded some beta,
unreleased patch yet.. why the hell would I do that? In our experience, it
has NOT been stable either. After a rebuild, it steamed along for a month
or so, then started sporadically dropping everything at the application
layer. The only thing I have seen that fixed that was unloading the NICs,
then reinitializing the system. It finally get to the point where it was
doing it on a daily basis, so I built another one offline, and swapped them
out one night. It's been up for 15 days now, and we are really excited. I
just have to keep it together long enough to get FW1 in place. :)
Now, as far as authentication, I'm not sure if this will fit the bill for
you, but if you use a firewall (like Firewall 1) that has LDAP
compatibility, you can fire up the Novell LDAP server and build filters
based on your NDS groups, users and containers, which gives you some nice
integration, ease of management as well as granularity.
Subject: Internet Authentication
I am looking for a product that will authenticate users going to the
internet. We are going to implement DHCP in the near future on either
Solaris or Novell and we need a way to authenticate people going to the
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