On Fri, 10 May 2002, Kelly Black 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).

Note that you still have to support the protocol ESP (protocol number
50).. I've never personally seen this blocked, but I've also never
personally seen GRE blocked.  :)

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