Recommendations for VPN end point appliances?

Chris fj1200 at comcast.net
Sun Jun 13 22:08:00 EDT 2004


bscott at ntisys.com wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 13 Jun 2004, at 9:40pm, fj1200 at comcast.net wrote:
> >> ... shared secrets went out in the 1980s ...
> >
> > Maybe, but SNMP V3 still uses it..........
> 
>   That's hardly an endorsement.  SNMP's approach to security issues has
> generally been to ignore them.  (SNMP = Security?  Not my problem!)  The
> fact that SNMPv3 has any security at all is a huge advance.  Now you want it
> to be modern, too?
> 

Yep, I totally agree, also SNMP is anything but simple, and why no-one
has come out with something a lot more user friendly, I don't know,  
However, it keeps me employed, so I shouldn't complain too much. :)



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