On Sat, 4 Oct 2003, Jacco de Leeuw wrote: > Shashank Khanvilkar wrote: > > > http://mia.ece.uic.edu/~papers/volans/l2tpd.html > > Comments appreciated. > > You don't seem to use encryption. Obviously your setup > describes a Layer 2 tunnel, but I don't think it can be > called a VPN.
Encryption is not required for a VPN, and is not used in many VPNs. (frame-relay, ATM, MPLS, and VLAN-based VPNS often don't use encryption) -Ralph
