RE: It's all over (except for the screaming & shouting).

[Alex Alten <Alten@attbi.com>]

I believe L2TP needs a cert and PPTP does not.  
That's a significant advantage for PPTP.

- Alex

At 09:41 AM 9/6/2002 -0400, Lordello, Claudio wrote:
>>From what I have observed in a client 2K or XP, when one creates a new VPN
>connection, the default network protocol is "Automatic" which works for
>either PPTP or L2TP/IPsec. Unless one overrides that in the client to
>specifically pick one or the other, which one is actually negotiated will
>depend on the server one is dialing into. So I am not sure what you mean by
>"the OS default is PPTP with 40b DES". Could you please clarify.
>
>Claudio.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Alex Alten [mailto:Alten@attbi.com]
>Sent: Friday, September 06, 2002 5:13 AM
>To: ipsec@lists.tislabs.com
>Subject: It's all over (except for the screaming & shouting).
>
>
>
>The market has finally spoken.  IPsec has lost the VPN race.  
>
>Recently I talked with an number of very senior level people in the
>IT trenchs. A lot of PC upgrades to XP & Win2K were done to get VPN
>capability.  The OS default is PPTP with 40b DES (MPPE). Not L2TP
>w/IPsec.  I bet many Cisco folks are upset.
>
>IPsec will probably hang on in specialized niches like net to net
>VPNs, etc.
>
>What a humbling result.
>
>- Alex
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>Alex Alten
>Alten@ATTBI.com
>
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Alex Alten
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