Re: I-D: Simple Configured Tunnel Setup Procedure

[Gert Doering <gert@space.net>]

Hi,

On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 04:29:24PM +0000, Ole Troan wrote:
> I do like the idea (but)... if the 'S' in STEP means simple to deploy
> then couldn't you achieve the same by just using L2TP? the user runs
> the LAC the ISP the LNS. IPv6/PPP/L2TP/UDP tunnelling between
> them. the ISP would typically have the required infrastructure
> already. authentication is defined and it should do NAT traversal.

Been there, done that, works :-)

The drawback is that it's only "simple" if you have an existing L2TP
infrastructure (that already can do IPv6).

Gert Doering
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