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RE: Windows 2000 and Cicsco router interoperability
At 11:47 PM -0700 5/15/00, CHINNA N.R. PELLACURU wrote:
>And BTW, a global pre-shared key is the key technology that enables
>centralized policy management, and the whole idea of the server
>downloading policy to the dumb clients via modeconfig!!!!!!!!!!!! And this
>supposedly also elimanates the overhead of double authentication, when
>doing xauth!!!!!! So, if you think that you already know all the overheads
>that these protocols eliminate, please think again.
>
> chinna
The choice of user or host authentication mechanism is neither an
enabler of nor an impediment to the use of centralized policy
management. You seem to be confusing authentication with
authorization. Perhaps that's the insidious influence of believing
in the supremacy of AAA? Also, your exclamation point key seems to
be sticky; have it fixed.
Steve
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