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



also sprach Jan-Benedict Glaw <jbglaw@lug-owl.de> [2005.03.06.2008 +0100]:
> 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.

An IPsec implementation needs kernel-level support to be able to
enforce policies. I would not be surprised if Windows allowed access
to the kernel to the normal user, but I tend to doubt it.

> > 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.

See above; they do.

> 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...

But not two VPN implementations.

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