...and how do you know that that box running that "unknown" OS is the "best
most secure platform"?
Brian Steele
----- Original Message -----
From: Tim Uckun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, 28 December, 1999 12:49 PM
Subject: Re: MS PPTP (Safe?) - alternative?
> At 08:33 AM 12/28/1999 -0400, you wrote:
> >Good post. I'd like to add that any proposed replacement for PPTP be
> >NT-based - I am certainly not interested in installing another OS on my
LAN
> >simply to provide VPN access, thereby substituting one potential security
> >problem for another.
>
> This is a pretty myopic view IMHO. If you bought a VPN box it wouldn't
> probably be based on NT, and I am sure you have routers and whatnot that
> are running on other Operating systems. What should it matter what OS a
> device runs? I say use the best most secure solution available to you. TO
> insist on an OS first and then looking at best functionality or security
on
> that OS is flirting with disaster.
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