""John Neiberger"" wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > I've been researching different types of service provider VPNs in general > and Qwest's PRN, in particular. From what I can gather their PRN is a > 2764-based VPN offering using IPSec tunneling. I've run into two fairly > obvious caveats already and I'm wondering what other caveats might await > that aren't so obvious. > > First, and most obvious, is that without the use of GRE or something similar > we won't get multiprotocol capability. Second, and a little less obvious > until you think about it, is that we would lose multicasting capabilities > without jumping through some GRE hoops. > > To those of you more familiar with this sort of thing, are there any other > operational caveats like these that I'd need to be aware of? > > BTW, I think it was dre who suggested I read the RFCs, which I've started to > do, and suggested I check out the www.lightreading.com website. That site is > great! I did do a search on Kompella vs. Kompella. I feel that Kompella has > some good points, but so does Kompella. ;-) I guess the real questions is > which Kompella is most compelling? > > I didn't realize that there were so many competing VPN groups and > technologies. At this rate, by the time we agree on any standard methods all > of the technologies will be obsolete!
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