June 28, 2000 10:29 AM

PPTP Improved

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Sean Daily
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Win2K introduces handy PPTP-management features
Windows 2000 includes a superset of the VPN connectivity features in Windows NT. The enhanced feature set includes improved support for PPTP as well as support for the Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol (L2TP) and IP Security (IPSec) protocol. Although L2TP and IPSec offer some exciting new capabilities, many organizations will continue to use PPTP for several reasons: administrators and users already understand it, it's easy to configure, and it offers technical advantages (e.g., PPTP is the only Win2K VPN option that supports Network Address Translation—NAT).

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