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Re: is manual keying mandatory (fwd)

Paul Koning <pkoning@xedia.com> Thu, 19 March 1998 16:03 UTC

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>>>>> "Perry" == Perry E Metzger <perry@piermont.com> writes:

 Perry> Jackie Wilson writes:
 >> I agree.  It will be some time before all boxes support ISAKMP,
 >> but they will need to be included in secure networks.  This will
 >> help customers adopt ISAKMP as a standard if it is widely
 >> available.
 >> 
 >> In a few years it could probably be phased out.

 Perry> I would be very against *ever* phasing out support for manual
 Perry> keying.

I agree with Perry.

Consider ARP.  It's been around for decades... but people still
support static ARP entries.

	paul

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