Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 11:21:36 -0700 (PDT) From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> To: net@freebsd.org Cc: wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu Subject: Re: Solution (RE: VPN client with mpd) Message-ID: <200109251821.f8PILa519449@vashon.polstra.com> In-Reply-To: <200109251814.f8PIEVJ77448@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> References: <PCELJJEJJMODEMKEBLLBIEDHCAAA.larse@isi.edu> <200109251809.f8PI9Rl19337@vashon.polstra.com> <200109251814.f8PIEVJ77448@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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In article <200109251814.f8PIEVJ77448@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>, Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> wrote: > <<On Tue, 25 Sep 2001 11:09:27 -0700 (PDT), John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> said: > > > The trouble with this is that your password will be sent unencrypted > > across the Internet, very possibly hitting a sniffer or two along the > > way. It's better to insist on chap and fix the broken peers. > > Actually, no: the other side, which considers itself a server, doesn't > want to authenticate *itself* in any way to clients (since Windows > clients have no way to accept server authentication). It's perfectly > happy to have clients authenticate themselves. Oh. I haven't actually sniffed it, so I'll assume you're right. I apologize for the misinformation. John -- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence." -- Chögyam Trungpa To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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