> Realistically, if you want to eliminate the need for a VPN client on > laptops, within the reasonably shortsighted future, you've got to > implement > things across https.
(Sorry, I wrote this before I saw Jonathan's post about IPv6 over IPv4. If that's correct - and you can tunnel the IPv6 across IPv4 - then the IPv6 protocol is really directly stepping in and taking the place of the would-be-VPN, and it means I eat my words. If that's the case, then there's really a very realistic possibility here.) Instead of creating an IPv4 private VPN network, encrypting it, and tunneling it across your available network connection, you're creating an IPv6 private network, which happens to have encryption built-in, and tunneling it across your available network connection. One thing I would comment on though - It means IPv6 is the death of the VPN, and really MS shouldn't be taking credit, saying "DirectAccess is the death of the VPN." _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
