Re: Networking hardware suggestions...

From: Walter Roberson (roberson_at_ibd.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca)
Date: 02/02/04 

Date: 2 Feb 2004 19:11:46 GMT

In article <1OpTb.2151$ZN1.126061@news20.bellglobal.com>,
Oliver O'Boyle <o.oboyle@celerica.ca> wrote:
:there are two dominant protocols to look at: PPTP (i believe this is
:a Mocro$oft creation) and L2TP which depends on IPSec. PPTP is really
:simple to set up, L2TP is typically more complicated, requiring
:certificates and such. there are some other less used protocols as
:well.

IPsec never requires certificates: you can use pre-shared keys.
Certificates certainly help increase scalability! but if you
only have a few sites or the sites only ever talk to one other site
(instead of having to talk to each other too) then pre-shared
can be sustainable too. 

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