SSTP: Microsoft new VPN tunnel using SSL is coming - please get ready to try it out !

re: SSTP: Microsoft new VPN tunnel using SSL is coming - please get ready to try it out !

C Johnson — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 07:25:07 GMT

Just a thought. I already have OpenVPN, and it already does VPN through an SSL tunnel.

Better, since it uses a set of open source, open standard tools, I can get support across platforms and even hardware. I can even get support in router hardware using DDWRT as firmware.

It's going to take something huge to get me to move from that.

Do you have something huge?

Microsoft would do better to work with projects like OpenVPN.

re: SSTP: Microsoft new VPN tunnel using SSL is coming - please get ready to try it out !

rrasblog — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 07:30:39 GMT

In-built Windows VPN client will give you features like NAP based health check, full IPv6 support, networking admin provisioned and customer made VPN client using CMAK.

re: SSTP: Microsoft new VPN tunnel using SSL is coming - please get ready to try it out !

thedude — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 10:01:22 GMT

Well, I can tell you, i've spent the last 2 weeks trying to make OpenSSL work correctly. At best, it's a major hack. TAP/TUN devices are a hackish solution. I'd *MUCH* rather see support for this functionality built-in to the OS than force people to dink around with these bolt-ons that have all kinds of issues.

re: SSTP: Microsoft new VPN tunnel using SSL is coming - please get ready to try it out !

Jesper Ravn — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 10:44:48 GMT

What are the plans to implement the SSTP client in XP?.

re: SSTP: Microsoft new VPN tunnel using SSL is coming - please get ready to try it out !

audiofree — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 05:50:51 GMT

If it's not back ported to XP clients then MS can't be serious about it. Most company’s which are the target for a feature like this are upgrading slowly to vista if at all. For this to take off it needs to be put on XP!