[vpn] IPSEC vs PPTP/L2TP

[Sandy Harris]

"meiremania.com" wrote:
> 
> Hey all,
> 
> A late happy easter to begin with.
> As some of you may yet know, I am writing my final scription on vpns
> (hopefully to graduate nicely :) )
> Now I have chosen to mainly test IPSEC implementations because I only heard
> everywhere that IPSEC is better than layer 2 vpns such as pptp and l2tp. Now
> actually here is my issue, because i need to explain thoroughly why IPSEC is
> the best pic for a freeware (*NIX) vpn solution over the other protocols. So
> if anybody has a doc on advantages/disadvantages of the different protocols,
> plz let me know. Also personal comments are more than welcome :)
> 
> greetz
> 
> Johan Meire
> student computer sciences
> 
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Look on the Counterpane Labs section of www.counterpane.co
for papers on flaws in PPTP and for a critique of IPsec.

The web links section of the online docs at www.freeswan.org 
has links to other critiques of IPsec.

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