One possibility is to use the Windows 2000 IPSEC encryption found on the IP properties tab. This allows servers and clients to have encryption without purchasing anything. You can also control which sources are encrypted by specifying it to always encrypt, or to encrypt when the source is requesting encryption. This is particularly a good feature if you purchase the 3-com 3XP Nic's, which will offload both encryption and framing functions from the W2K subsystem. Pretty neat.
-----Original Message----- From: Jason Lewis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, June 23, 2002 12:00 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: How to encrypt all network traffic I have been looking for a way to encrypt all my local IP network traffic. Does anyone know of software that will do this? A VPN isn't practical, I am directly connecting to the other machines and I don't want to have more IP's involved. IPSec is probably the solution, but I am looking for something cross platform and and easy for the end user to configure. Maybe even an app to easily configure IPSec would be good. PGPNet can do this, but it has been dropped by mcafee. Is there anything similar? I can't find any apps that address encrypting network traffic. Is the only real solution hardware? jas
