The protocol bursts onto the scene a while back as the great hope for secure communications/VPNs, better that ANYTHING that has come before... And only runs on a VERY few OSes, with almost no review other than the designer.
A somewhat testy sponsor of of VPN/firewall appliances get's tired of waiting for the protocol to appear and hastily commissions an implementation of the protocol for a platform of their choosing that has NO SUPPORT from the designer. Said implementation is arguably "not good" (and it's
And only runs on a VERY few OSes, with almost no review other than the designer.
Actually it came to the scene with Windows, Linux, and Mac support and went through significant analysis before even getting to code reviews which were done for inclusion directly into the Linux kernel.
I think the bigger problem is BSD lacks an active developer base.
Lets see... (Score:5, Interesting)
The protocol bursts onto the scene a while back as the great hope for secure communications/VPNs, better that ANYTHING that has come before... And only runs on a VERY few OSes, with almost no review other than the designer.
A somewhat testy sponsor of of VPN/firewall appliances get's tired of waiting for the protocol to appear and hastily commissions an implementation of the protocol for a platform of their choosing that has NO SUPPORT from the designer. Said implementation is arguably "not good" (and it's
Re:Lets see... (Score:2)
And only runs on a VERY few OSes, with almost no review other than the designer.
Actually it came to the scene with Windows, Linux, and Mac support and went through significant analysis before even getting to code reviews which were done for inclusion directly into the Linux kernel.
I think the bigger problem is BSD lacks an active developer base.