On Friday 10 May 2002 09:56, Nate Carlson wrote:
> The PPTP protocol itself has problems with the way it does encryption and
> stuff.. even with 128-bit encryption, from what I've read, it isn't really
> really hard to crack it. Meaning, it isn't something you can just do on
> the fly, but it is possible.

Agreed.  Also since IPSEC does not use GRE, you don't have to worry about the
service provider blocking GRE traffic (ATT Global does last I checked).

> We just set up one of our clients [speak up if you want] with a IPSec
> solution where they do a Sprint dialup from laptops, and after the link is
> up, the Sprint dialer automatically launches the ipsec.exe utility [which
> I discuss on my page above], and brings up a VPN connection to their
> corporate network. So, all the Windows user sees is a dos box come up for
> a minute while it connects, and then they can browse their domain at the
> office. Pretty sweet..

That does sound pretty sweet.  I will have to give it a try.

Thanks,
Kelly Black
KB0GBJ