After a 6-month struggle in trying to grep the internet looking for an answer in how to get Juniper’s SSL VPN client to work with Gentoo Linux, the fight is finally over.

There is a detailed post on the Gentoo forums about how to setup Juniper on Gentoo.

Some requirements are that you are using sun sdk 1.4, which you have to manually download from sun and install with portage.
The major show-stopper for me was not having the correct Kernel parameter set:

$ grep CONFIG_TUN /usr/src/linux/.config
CONFIG_TUN=y

Make sure you have TUN enabled in the kernel:
Device Drivers —>
Network device support —>
< *> Universal TUN/TAP device driver support

see the link above for my notes and step-by-step instructions.

Every morning, I read through various number of blogs…here a few interesting developments today!

Firefox 2: Client-side storage and a lot more

- A new javascript storage containers, similar to a cookie, but are local to a window, not the entire client. Cookies are sent with every request, this will provide the functionality of having two seperate sessions in two different windows (or tabs). For example, logging into the same site under two different accounts (should they implement storage containers). Working draft

ablog » Clean that input! - Promising open source library for cleaning user input in php. I haven’t looked through the source code yet.

An interesting (and exciting) article from Wired magazine GNU Radio Opens an Unseen World
about using open source radio software and capturing *all* frequencies…

One of Ettus’ USRPs, with the right daughterboards and radio software, can capture FM, read GPS, decode HDTV, transmit over emergency bands and open garage doors.

…he turns the laptop around to reveal a set of vibrating lines in humps and dips across the screen, like a wildly shaking wireframe mountain range. “Here,” he explains, “I’m grabbing FM.”

“All of it?” I ask.

“All of it,” he says.

Other uses include using GNU Radio to track foot traffic in U.K. shopping centers, by listening for control-channel signals of mobile phones carried by nearby shoppers.