Re: confuzius

["Stephane Beaulieu" <stephane@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Christian,

Well, you're right to be confused.

Some people use Xauth, some use L2TP, some use both.  The IETF's IPSRA
working group is also working on yet another completely different proposal.
Each of the proposals has its own merits, and is better suited for different
types of VPN deployment.

I doubt you'll see anything change in the near future, as the IPSRA working
group is moving very slowly.

Your best bet would be to go with a vendor that supports both XAUTH and L2TP
(a.k.a Cisco ;)

Stephane.




----- Original Message -----
From: "Christian Franzen" <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <ietf-xauth@xxxxxxxx>; <l2tp@xxxxxxxx>; "Owner-Ipsec"
<owner-ipsec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2001 7:13 PM
Subject: confuzius


> Hi,
>
> while I was checking todays market on CeBit this week, I got confused by
so
> many different opinions and solutions for remote access scenarios using
> IPSec. Is there any definitive consense of vendors?
>
> Is there still a fight between IPSec under or over L2TP and IPSec with
> Xauth? Or, who won the battle? The enduser must be really confused rather
> more than me. What will be the future technology for a secure RAS???
Perhaps
> my own proprietary protocol??? ;-)
>
> I wonder if you could tell me, who is using which protocol? And what do
you
> think will be the technology used in the future?
>
> Thanks
> Christian
>
> P.S.: I am very interested in your opinion, because I would like to
collect
> some ideas about IPSec RAS for my thesis.
>