IPsec and NETBEUI

[Ryan Russell]

On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, John Tajima wrote:

> Point to Point Tunneling Protocol will tunnel NetBEUI traffic, as well
> as IP and IPX.
> It is built into Windows NT Server and you can use Win98 as clients.

That's a good point.  I guess Microsoft gets to muck about with the
protocol and do cute things to get it to work.

>
> Also, L2TP should also be able to handle other protocols.
>

I asked Cisco about such things.. I was trying to "bridge" across an IP
net.  They said no.  I believe the L2 part of L2TP refers to it being a
layer 2 transport.  I.e. it will carry layer 3 stuff, but not other layer
2.

				Ryan

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