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Re: PPTP ????
> From: "C. Harald Koch" <chk@border.com>
> 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...
>
Sounds like what Morningstar was doing a few years back. And they just
got bought by Ascend....
WSimpson@UMich.edu
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BSimpson@MorningStar.com
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