Author Archive

Pre-Shared Keys

September 4th, 2008 by Bostjan Sustar


While reading Jan’s blog entries about how public key infrastructure (PKI) is misunderstood and misused (Part 1 , Part 2, Part 3), I thought about the fact that many people decide against using PKI in IPSec solutions because they do not understand it and consider it to be too complex. ...

VPLS: Is it Hot or is it Not?

June 19th, 2008 by Bostjan Sustar


Many people regard Virtual Private LAN Services (VPLS) as the ultimate of MPLS features for providing any-to-any connectivity to VPN sites where minimum signaling is required between customer and provider. I agree that this nifty feature can come in handy in some specific situations, but it is important to define ...