From owner-freebsd-security Thu Apr 24 12:35:06 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA25926 for security-outgoing; Thu, 24 Apr 1997 12:35:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ns2.gamespot.com (ns2.gamespot.com [206.169.18.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA25917; Thu, 24 Apr 1997 12:35:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tiramisu.gamespot.com (tiramisu.gamespot.com [206.169.18.119]) by ns2.gamespot.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id MAA20680; Thu, 24 Apr 1997 12:35:00 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <3.0.32.19970424123611.008bdb50@mail.gamespot.com> X-Sender: ian@mail.gamespot.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) Date: Thu, 24 Apr 1997 12:36:12 -0700 To: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.org, security@FreeBSD.org From: Ian Kallen Subject: Re: Commercial vs built in firewall capabilities of FreeBSD Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-security@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk The IETF told Cisco and Microsoft to merge their VPN technology 'cause they were sufficiently similar but not interoperable. I don't know what the implimentation schedule is though. I tried to answer my objection to NT's lack of secure remote administration by using pcAnywhere over a pptp link. No go. Since I couldn't run a tcp/ip capable application over the link, it made me sour on pptp en generale. I don't remotely admin any NT boxes over the net. There's a lot of issues MS has to deal with for NT to be taken seriously as an internet platform, IMO. At 01:06 PM 4/24/97 -0400, Mike Tancsa wrote: >One thing I have found somewhat suprising in this research project is the >reaction to Microsoft's PPTP RFC, or to be more precise, the lack of >reaction to it. I did a search through Dejanews (for those of you who >havent tried it, check out http://www.dejanews.com), and found absolutely >no mention of in in the FreeBSD mailing lists, or in the newsgroups, and >hardly any mention of it even in comp.unix*... Is it because its a >Microsoft initiative ? -- Ian Kallen ian@gamespot.com Director of Technology and Web Administration SpotMedia Communications http://www.gamespot.com/ http://www.videogamespot.com/