On Friday 10 May 2002 09:56, Nate Carlson wrote: > The PPTP protocol itself has problems with the way it does encryption and > stuff.. even with 128-bit encryption, from what I've read, it isn't really > really hard to crack it. Meaning, it isn't something you can just do on > the fly, but it is possible. Agreed. Also since IPSEC does not use GRE, you don't have to worry about the service provider blocking GRE traffic (ATT Global does last I checked). > We just set up one of our clients [speak up if you want] with a IPSec > solution where they do a Sprint dialup from laptops, and after the link is > up, the Sprint dialer automatically launches the ipsec.exe utility [which > I discuss on my page above], and brings up a VPN connection to their > corporate network. So, all the Windows user sees is a dos box come up for > a minute while it connects, and then they can browse their domain at the > office. Pretty sweet.. That does sound pretty sweet. I will have to give it a try. Thanks, Kelly Black KB0GBJ