Re: [gnome-network]Re: gnome-network VPN client

[Carlos Morgado <chbm gnome org>]

On 2003.10.29 10:36, Paul Coates wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 23:17, Carlos Morgado wrote:
> > On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 11:29:48, Paul Coates wrote:
> >
> > > I always considered VPN to be similar to dialup, both provide a new
> > > network interface with an IP address on the remote network, and you  
> need
> > > to setup your routing to play nice with the other network interfaces.
> >
> > iirc frees/wan doesn't provide a network device.
>
> VPN using PPTP and IPSec are two different animals, I should have said
> VPN using PPTP. PPTP uses PPP and creates new interfaces, from what I
> can tell IPSec does it's own thing on top of IP.

You shouldn't call it gnome-VPN-confabulator then ;) or else people will  
complain when it doesn't generate a frees/wan roadwarrior config for them.

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