Re: Tunneling with portmaster? (fwd)

Pedro Melo (melo@co.telenet.pt)
Tue, 01 Jul 1997 11:17:00 GMT

On Sat, 28 Jun 1997 06:39:11 -0700 (PDT), MegaZone <megazone@livingston.com>
wrote:

>Once upon a time Miquel van Smoorenburg shaped the electrons to say...
>>I found some interesting draft RFCs on the livingston ftp site in
>>/pub/radius. Two of them are about using RADIUS to negotiate a tunnel.
>>(PPTP, IPIP etc).
>>
>>Does ComOS support this? Are there plans to support it in the future?
>
>No it does not. We have no plans to support L2F, PPTP, LT2P, etc, at this
>time. We plan to support a *real* VPN protocol, that is an official RFC
>(5 actually)- IPSec (aka Secure IP).

Any ideias on the position of IPSec on the Eng. todo list? Top, bottom, middle?

Melo

PS: See? I didn't ask for a release date... ;)

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