[vpn] IPSEC vs PPTP/L2TP

[Nap van Zuuren]

Some other links that might be of use:

- http://ece.gmu.edu/courses/ECE543/reportsF01/arveal.pdf
- http://www.securitydogs.com/vpn_library.html
- http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/707/index.shtml#ipsec
- http://www.moretonbay.com/vpn/pptp.html
- http://home.t-online.de/home/TschiTschi/tunneling_protokolle.htm ( German )
- http://www.networkcomputing.com/1010/1010buyers2.html
- http://www.securite.org/db/reseau/tunnel ( French )

Greetings, Nap van Zuuren - Gent - Belgium

-----Original Message-----
From:	meiremania.com [SMTP:johan.meire at rug.ac.be]
Sent:	dinsdag 9 april 2002 17:11
To:	vpn at securityfocus.com
Cc:	Tina Bird
Subject:	[vpn] IPSEC vs PPTP/L2TP

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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