[wplug] Easy VPN?

Petrucci, Joseph Joseph.Petrucci at ddiworld.com
Mon May 16 14:19:56 EDT 2005


If they want you to go in with a VPN they more than like have the software and can provide a client. Unfortunitly it mayt be a windows client.

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From: wplug-bounces+joseph.petrucci=ddiworld.com at wplug.org
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Of Bill Moran
Sent: Monday, May 16, 2005 1:19 PM
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Cc: russ at sugapablo.com
Subject: Re: [wplug] Easy VPN?


Russ Schneider <russ at sugapablo.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 16 May 2005, Bill Moran wrote:
> 
> > Hmmm ...
> > 
> > What kind of VPN?  That's a fairly important piece of information.
> 
> *laughs*
> 
> You know, they didn't tell me.  And I bet they don't know.  :)
> 
> Again, there isn't any app for Linux that would know?  I know you don't 
> have to know what kind of VPN it is to connect to it via Windows.

Sure you do.  I could be wrong (new software comes out all the time) but
I don't know of any type of software that is capable of detecting and
connecting to every type of VPN available.

Windows used to use PPTP, but PPTP is slow, unreliable and has weak security.

I think Windows now uses IPsec by default.  But IPsec is complicated as hell.
Windows is the only OS I know of that has gone to the trouble to integrate
all the management required for IPsec into a single interface.  Keep in
mind (for example) that IPsec supports both tunneling, and generalized
encryption without a tunnel.

-- 
Bill Moran
Potential Technologies
http://www.potentialtech.com
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