Fortinet FORTIOS V3.0 MR7 - Manual (Page 3)

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FortiOS v3.0 MR7 SSL VPN User Guide
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Contents
Introduction ........................................................................................ 7
About FortiGate SSL VPN ................................................................................. 7
About this document......................................................................................... 8
Document conventions.................................................................................. 8
Typographic conventions........................................................................ 9
FortiGate documentation .................................................................................. 9
Related documentation ................................................................................... 10
FortiManager documentation ...................................................................... 10
FortiClient documentation ........................................................................... 11
FortiMail documentation .............................................................................. 11
FortiAnalyzer documentation ...................................................................... 11
Fortinet Tools and Documentation CD ........................................................ 11
Fortinet Knowledge Center ........................................................................ 11
Comments on Fortinet technical documentation ........................................ 12
Customer service and technical support ...................................................... 12
Configuring a FortiGate SSL VPN .................................................. 13
Comparison of SSL and IPSec VPN technology........................................... 13
Legacy versus web-enabled applications ............................................. 14
Authentication differences .................................................................... 14
Connectivity considerations .................................................................. 14
Relative ease of use ............................................................................. 14
Client software requirements ................................................................ 14
Access control ...................................................................................... 14
Session failover support ....................................................................... 15
SSL VPN modes of operation ......................................................................... 15
Web-only mode .......................................................................................... 15
Web-only mode client requirements .................................................... 16
Port-forwarding mode.................................................................................. 16
Client requirements............................................................................... 17
Tunnel mode .............................................................................................. 17
Tunnel-mode client requirements ........................................................ 18
Topology........................................................................................................... 18
Infrastructure requirements .................................................................. 19
Configuration overview................................................................................... 20
Configuring the SSL VPN client ..................................................................... 20
SSL VPN Virtual Desktop application. ........................................................ 21
Using the SSL VPN Virtual Desktop ..................................................... 21
Using the SSL VPN standalone tunnel clients...................................... 24