Which is more secure PPTP or IPSEC?

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Harley September 16, 2002 at 09:32:38 Pacific
Specs: WinXP, Intel/128

I have WinXP and Win2K. Win has their own VPN with something called PTPP, but when I read stuff on the net, they always talk about IPSEC and I have to have a seperate device. Which is better, PTPP that you get with Microsoft, or buy a device with IPSEC?

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Brian September 16, 2002 at 09:38:14 Pacific

PPTP is the easyiest to setup, but IPSec is way more secured and harder to setup.

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Harley September 16, 2002 at 09:57:31 Pacific

Which would you have and why?

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D September 16, 2002 at 10:07:09 Pacific

IPSec is by far the preferred choice Harley. You'll find a lot of support and products available for it. If your interested send me an email.
D

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Brian September 16, 2002 at 10:09:51 Pacific

I use both:
If I was connecting two or more offices together , I would us IPSec with 3des, it would give more security between the 2 points.

Now if I just wanted someone from the road and they need a quick file, I would use PPTP.
PPTP client comes with all windows OS�s for free and It would be very easy to setup and walk someone thru and setting-up the pptp client, but I would not use it to connect two offices together.
Just remember, this is my point of view.

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