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Re: (ASCEND) ... and VPN ?
At 10:57 AM 5/22/98 -0400, Phillip Vandry wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> has anyone dealt yet with the VPN capabilities of the P50s and Maxes ?
>> Which worked out well and which did not ? Is there any compatibility
>
>Worked out pretty badly for us as an Ascend salesperson told us last
>week that the VPN encrypted tunelling is not yet available (actually
>no one was sure whether it even existed). Pretty scary since we
>promised that it a customer.
>
>They told us there might be another way to do it, but I can't imagine
>how, as I can't see anything that could possibly be used to create
>a P50-to-P50 tunnel in either the Pipe configuration or the wincrap
>firewall manager.
Encrypted tunnels have been available for a while now on Pipelines. You
have to get the IPsec security hash code.
>HAve you had better experience?
>
>> used to be ATMP (extended GRE IIRC), 6.x added L2TP, PPTP is there as
>> well. Is someone actually using this stuff ? Beyond "single-dialup-
>> user-tunnels-to-his-enterprise-LAN" scope ?
>
>As far as I know, none of those could be used except in their own weird
>special applications. The thing is that with IOS, it's so....... simple!
>
>interface Tunnel0
> tunnel key 12345
> tunnel source my-address
> tunnel destination your-address
>
>And it just works!
ATMP is far more feature-rich that generic tunneling as is PPTP and L2TP.
But it's really not that difficult. The new manuals describe it very well.
Matt Holdrege http://www.ascend.com matt@ascend.com
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