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From: "Ed Durrant" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com> Full Headers
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Subject: Re: [OS2Wireless] eCS -- VPN
Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2008 23:36:03 +1000
To: OS/2 Wireless Users Mailing List <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>

Jeffrey Race wrote:
Just looking at hotspotvpn.com and wondering whether

 -- such a service would work with eCS?  (Shows only
    windows setup but it seems to be generic)

 -- This service is $12/mo--are there less expensive or
     free/quasi-free services?

Jeffrey Race


There is limited technical information on the more secure HotspotVPN2 product however for HotspotVPN1, the following is stated:

HotSpotVPN-1 is a PPTP VPN and uses 128bit MPPE encryption and is the only VPN service available for your Palm and Pocket PC devices. It is very easy to set up because most operating systems (Windows, OS X) come with a PPTP client already installed. The typical setup takes less than three minutes.

From this I read that a PPTP VPN client is needed (eCS 2.0 comes with one), however the fact that it uses MPPE encryption (whatever that is) suggests that a program to encode / decode this will be required and of course this company wont supply one for OS/2 - eComStation.

Cheers/2

Ed.
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