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Re: securing a WLAN with PPP (or the like)



On Sun, 2005-03-06 20:04:13 +0100, martin f krafft <madduck@debian.org>
wrote in message <[🔎] 20050306190413.GA15063@cirrus.madduck.net>:
> also sprach Jan-Benedict Glaw <jbglaw@lug-owl.de> [2005.03.06.1901 +0100]:
> > It can start as a system service, using fixed configurations, which
> > doesn't neccessarily require any further administration...
> 
> If it's a system service, administrator rights are required to
> install it in the first place. This is not an option.

It's either a system service, or a program started by an individual.
Though, I don't know out of the head if an individual would need to have
admin rights.

> Furthermore, two VPN clients cannot exist on the same machine, so

I don't know if other commercial "products" kill other company's
"products", but technically, that's pure nonsense.

A VPN endpoint is just an IP address, possibly with some routing
information. You can have two ethernet cards in one machine, so you can
have two VPN connections...

MfG, JBG

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