RE: Secure Ethernet dot1q Tunnels

From: Brian McGahan (bmcgahan@internetworkexpert.com)
Date: Tue Jul 26 2005 - 13:33:31 GMT-3


George,

        You could run PPP over Ethernet with authentication between the
customer edge devices. If you are really concerned about security you
should do IPSec authentication and encryption.

HTH,

Brian McGahan, CCIE #8593
bmcgahan@internetworkexpert.com

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf
Of
> CCIE Group Study
> Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2005 11:12 AM
> To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
> Subject: Secure Ethernet dot1q Tunnels
>
> Good morning:
>
> I have not started my research yet, but I was wondering about securing
> Metro-Etherent. Not port security frame security other than the
> establishment
> of VLAN tags, dot1q trunk tags, etc. Other Layer 2 protocols like
Frame
> Realy, have a PPP function for CHAP. Any suggestions for reading
> material?
>
> George Morton
>
>



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