[ale] Practical Office Wireless (was Feedback on Wireless Standards)

[Joe]

hbbs at attbi.com writes:

> Joe -
> 
> Yours is a great response (as have been the rest of y'all's) and I really
> appreciate your taking the time to go in to such detail.  I have a few questions:
> 
> > Finally, I have a Cisco VPN client that I need to use to access my
> > employer's corporate net. Since that client relies on a custom
> > IPsec service on Windows, it can't co-exist with the Windows
> > IPsec stuff; which means that when I want to get to the
> > corporate net, I have to plug my XP laptop into my wired LAN,
> > disable Windows IPsec services, and enable the Cisco ones.
> > Bleh.
> 
> Whence the "custom IPsec service" and why?

Cisco's VPN client relies on some proprietary Cisco implementation of
(I think) ISAKMP.

-- Joe Knapka
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