Which statements about smart tunnels on a Cisco firewall are true? (Choose two.)
A.
Smart tunnels can be used by clients that do not have administrator privileges
B.
Smart tunnels support all operating systems
C.
Smart tunnels offer better performance than port forwarding
D.
Smart tunnels require the client to have the application installed locally
A, C:
Smart Tunnel is an advanced feature of Clientless SSL VPN1 that provides seamless and highly secure remote access for native client-server applications.
Smart Tunnel Advantages over Port-Forwarding, Plug-ins
Smart Tunnel offers better performance than browser plug-ins.
Port forwarding is the legacy technology for supporting TCP-based applications over a Clientless SSL VPN connection. Unlike port forwarding, Smart Tunnel simplifies the user experience by not requiring the user connection of the local application to the local port.
Smart Tunnel does not require users to have administrator privileges.
Smart Tunnel does not require the administrator to know application port numbers in advance.
Smart Tunnel avoids the installation of a Full-Tunnel VPN Client on the endpoint.
There is no mention of Smart Tunnel offering better performance than port forwarding.
The correct answer is A, D.
Even though you still need administrative priviliges to install the SmartTunnel add-on in IE, you can run afterwards as a regular user.
You need to have the tunneled applications installed locally.
Agree with the Spoonman, cisco docs just tells that port forwarding is an outdated approach. It justs says that smart-tunnels has better performance than plugins (not the port forward).
And you have to install small piece of it after all upon connecting.