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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">That's certainly what i prefer, but it
doesn't solve Tony's "the remote side of things which you don't
control" issue, whereas i was under the impression that L2TP/IPsec
in Windows does.<br>
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On 08/09/2013 03:08 PM, Alex Samad - Yieldbroker wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>I have seen places implement openvpn
as a viable alternative</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Alex</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span
lang="EN-US"> AusNOG
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Paul Gear<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, 9 August 2013 3:05 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:ausnog@lists.ausnog.net">ausnog@lists.ausnog.net</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [AusNOG] Application Firewall
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<p class="MsoNormal">On 08/09/2013 02:54 PM, Tony wrote:</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Who still uses PPTP you might say ?
It's insecure, get rid of it I hear ? The problem is
the remote side of things which you don't control and
user in dept X absolutely have to connect to vendor Y
via PPTP session to do something "really important".<br>
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At the very least it should be actively deprecated...<br>
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I've been told that the Windows VPN client can automatically
determine whether a VPN server is PPTP or L2TP/IPsec and do
the right thing - is that not the case?<br>
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Paul</p>
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