On Fri, 17 Nov 1995, LASD DSB wrote:
> My organization is in the process of implmenting remote access
> capabilities via analog lines. Our firewall product has the capability
> of establishing encrypted communication from the firewall to remote PC's
> via an encryption add-on for each remote PC. As I was leaning to take
> this route, someone mentioned that Microsoft's Remote Access Server
> (RAS) basically provides the same functionality. Naturally, with RAS,
> we would still have the firewall but we would let RAS handle the
> encryption. Does anybody have any knowledge or experience of how RAS
> works and whether there would be an advantage of going with RAS rather
> than using the firewall's encryption package (other than $$$). The only
> thing that comes to my mind is that now we would have to place a RAS
> server outside of the firewall in order to un-encrypt the packets coming
> in so that they may be processed through the firewall and routed through
> our Cisco infrastructure.
RAS doesn't encrypt data.
-- Mike
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