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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: PPP over Ethernet?
At 10:53 AM 6/4/98 -0700, you wrote: >Cygnus has tools that let you build SHH on WinNT. > >At 10:14 AM 6/4/98 -0700, Dave Siegel wrote: >>> Nah, They never heard of virtual circuits. >>> >>> Seriously, PPP over IP is a way of building a cheap VPN. The thing is that >>> SSH already does that job much better. >> >>SSH does not allow me to access file on the corporate NT server. >> >>PPTP (ala MS VPN) does. Give me 10 minutes with a sniffer and a few nifty tools and not only can I find the PPTP session but, take control. Now, *I* have access to your file on that NiceTry Server. I have yet to see or hear about this being done with an SSH tunnel. Perhaps you would like to put a unix box on your network to do SSH tunnels with and from there, mount your SAMBA share from the NiceTry box. Or then again, maybe you trust MS. <sic> ------- John Fraizer (root) | __ _ | The System Administrator | / / (_)__ __ ____ __ | The choice mailto:[email protected] | / /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / | of a GNU http://www.EnterZone.Net/ | /____/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ | Generation A 486 is a terrible thing to waste...
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