From owner-freebsd-current Sun Dec 27 11:27:08 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA25393 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 27 Dec 1998 11:27:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp1.andrew.cmu.edu (SMTP1.ANDREW.CMU.EDU [128.2.10.81]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA25388 for ; Sun, 27 Dec 1998 11:27:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mwhite@cmu.edu) Received: from FRAUGHT.NET.CMU.EDU (FRAUGHT.NET.CMU.EDU [128.2.6.66]) by smtp1.andrew.cmu.edu (8.8.5/8.8.2) with ESMTP id OAA02382 for ; Sun, 27 Dec 1998 14:26:48 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1998 14:26:49 -0500 From: Matt White To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PPTP and FreeBSD Message-ID: <4235743047.914768809@FRAUGHT.NET.CMU.EDU> In-Reply-To: <199812271456.PAA17569@uriah.heep.sax.de> Originator-Info: login-id=; server=cyrus.andrew.cmu.edu X-Mailer: Mulberry (Win32) [1.4.0, s/n S-100002] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --On Sunday, December 27, 1998, 3:56 PM +0100 J Wunsch wrote: > In any case: M$ PPTP is a sad joke, and nothing else. Nobody who's > concerned the slightest about security (and after all, improving > security is the designated purpose of PPTP) should ever use the M$ > implementation. Could this have anything to do with the fact that the Win9x version of the PPTP client doesn't even support encryption of the data stream? Regardless, we would like a PPTP server running under FreeBSD/Linux/Solaris at this site because we subscribe to a number of services that do security by IP address. Our desire would be more to be able to assign IPs from our address space to roaming users. Since we don't consider our local wire to be secure in any way shape or form, we encrypt all sensitive traffic in the application. IMO, this is the only sane way to do things. -Matt ---------- Matt White Network Systems Designer Canegie Mellon Computing Services To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message