The IT unit at my institution just announced:

The Juniper SSL VPN system has been successfully upgraded to a secure 
operating system. VPN connections are now available. An upgrade to your 
Pulse client will be pushed down to secure the client side connection.

End quote.

Looking at:

http://www.juniper.net/techpubs/software/pulse/releasenotes/j-pulse-5.0r3-supportedplatforms.pdf

it does not appear that a Juniper Junos Pulse client exists for any 
environments under than MS Windows and Apple Mac OS X .  It appears from 
the above that due to the SSL issues, Pulse will be required to use the 
VPN here -- and for my work, I absolutely need VPN (all non-VPN remote 
logins to a system, e.g., ssh -X, are blocked except through the VPN 
channels).

Is anyone aware of a linux, and specifically SL 6x, workaround or port 
of Pulse or a Pulse compatible application?

Yasha Karant