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Re: (ASCEND) ... and VPN ?
> >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.
These Pipes were supposed to have that. Can you tell from this?
Pipe #1:
Field features 1: 4
Field features 2: 32
Field features 3: 64
Field features 4: 0
Pipe #2:
Field features 1: 4
Field features 2: 32
Field features 3: 0
Field features 4: 0
> >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.
I'll check the manuals then!
-Phil
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