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AltaVista Tunnel
From: Eric Dykema <Eric_test () sdsi com>
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 1997 16:09:52 -0500
I'm getting ready to implement a VPN and one of the products being evaluated is AltaVista Tunnel 97. We need to pass traffic to both UNIX boxes and PCs over the Tunnel. I can't seem to do NetBEUI sessions over the Tunnel product. The vendor claims that it's because our fwtk-based firewall won't pass UDP traffic, but the Tunnel documentation says that every packet is encrypted and encapsulated in a TCP packet before passing thru the firewall. Therefore, I don't think I believe them. I suspect the cause might be that NetBEUI is unroutable and can't be routed thru the Tunnel server. Microsoft's PPTP _can_ do NetBEUI sessions over the tunnel, but I'd really rather not use it for reasons that don't need to be argued here. If my above stated suspicion is correct, then I don't know how M$ routes NetBEUI traffic thru their tunnel (and probably don't want to know). Does anybody have any ideas on AltaVista Tunnel? Am I right or wrong? -------------------------------------------------- Eric Dykema email: Eric_Dykema () sdsi com Network Administrator SDS, Inc. Oak Brook, IL USA 630 368 0400 (voice) 630 990 8584 (fax) --------------------------------------------------
Current thread:
- AltaVista Tunnel Eric Dykema (Oct 15)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- RE: AltaVista Tunnel Linwood Ferguson (Oct 15)
- Re: AltaVista Tunnel Bruce B. Platt (Oct 17)
- Re: AltaVista Tunnel Joseph S. D. Yao (Oct 17)
- Altavista Tunnel Eric Dykema (Oct 17)