[AusNOG] Application Firewall Recommendations

[Paul Gear]

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.

On 08/09/2013 03:08 PM, Alex Samad - Yieldbroker wrote:
>
> 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:
>
>     ...
>
>     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".
>     ...
>
>
> 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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