[AusNOG] Application Firewall Recommendations

[Alex Samad - Yieldbroker]

I have seen places implement openvpn as a viable alternative

Alex

From: AusNOG [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Paul Gear
Sent: Friday, 9 August 2013 3:05 PM
To: ausnog at lists.ausnog.net
Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Application Firewall Recommendations

On 08/09/2013 02:54 PM, Tony wrote:
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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".
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At the very least it should be actively deprecated...

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?

Paul
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