[vpn] IPSEC vs PPTP/L2TP

[Ryan Malayter]

Ipsec and L2TP are IETF standards. PPTP is a proprietary microsoft solution.
Open standards are almost always better from interoperability, stability,
security, and performance standpoints.

-----Original Message-----
From: meiremania.com [mailto:johan.meire at rug.ac.be] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2002 10:11 AM
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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