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   ublic.windows.server.networking   
   From: troffasky@hotmail.com   
      
   Meanwhile, at the comp.dcom.sys.cisco Job Justification Hearings, Stefan   
   Monnier chose the tried and tested strategy of:   
      
   >> IPSEC is very widely used for infrastructure VPNs and is not   
   >> proprietary.  Cisco interoperates with Checkpoint interoperates with   
   >> Draytek interoperates with OpenVPN ....... Never found a problem in   
   >> dozens of cases.   
   >   
   > In which sense do they "interoperate"?   
      
   Which 'they' are you referring to?   
      
   >> OpenVPN is proprietary and will not work with a Draytek router.   
   >   
   > In which sense is OpenVPN proprietary?   
      
   There's only one implementation of the OpenVPN protocol [that I know of -   
   recompiling for different platforms and writing pretty front ends don't   
   count as reimplementations in my book]. OpenVPN Solutions LLC [the copyright   
   holder] are therefore in a position to dictate what the OpenVPN protocol   
   consists of, for example, changing the default UDP port. Anyone can take the   
   source and extend it in ways that make it incompatible with OpenVPN, at   
   which point it's no longer OpenVPN.   
      
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