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Re: PPTP ????
In message <199603271811.NAA02838@jekyll.piermont.com>, "Perry E. Metzger" writes:
>
> Robert Moskowitz writes:
> > Has anyone looked into this new PPTP ? That is Point-to-point
> > Tunnel Protocol?
> >
>
> Haven't heard of it. Who has done it, and where?
It's from Microsoft and a couple of terminal server people. It's PPP from a
remote dialup hub tunnelled (over IP) to your home office PPP server for
"secure remote access", i.e. user dials into local ISP; ISP relays PPP
packets directly to head-office, encapsulated inside IP; user thinks he's
got a direct PPP link to the office, but with a local telephone call.
I haven't looked closely at the spec, but I vaguely remember some sort of
encryption or authentication on the tunnel portion of the link...
A press release is at
<http://www.microsoft.com/backoffice/ntserver/pptppr.htm>
The spec is available from:
<ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/developr/drg/pptp/Pptp.doc>
and
<ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/developr/drg/pptp/PPTP.ZIP>
In Microsoft Word format, of course :-(
Naturally, any errors in this description are mine, and no doubt the result
of bugs in my wetware...
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