Jason Edelman comments on his blog:
I was driving home tonight and saw a tweet from Ethan Banks (@ecbanks) that stated, “After all these years of IPSEC (a standard, after all), bringing up a tunnel between disparate vendors is one of the hardest tasks I do.” When I see these kinds of statements and have these thoughts myself, I think, there is clear problem, do others have the same problem, is this a problem looking for a solution, and can be there be a better way? In this particular case, it’s definitely a problem, but can there be a better way? Can we view this as an example where the network and security industry has been okay with mediocrity? Maybe.
Mention VPN tunnels between differing vendor equipment and you’ll likely drive a security/network person to the point of insanity. Jason has a great use case for new technology to solve this problem. I wonder how else this could be applied?
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