Due to technological changes regarding access through VPN-Services, demand for our PPTP service (unencrypted PPTP connections to ETH Zurich) has dwindled.<\/p>\n
As a result of the outdated hardware solution, lack of support for PPTP updates and a protocol which is considered to be a security risk<\/a>, the IT Services has decided to discontinue offering this service. PPTP will no longer be available as of June 1st 2015 (end of semester).<\/p>\n As an alternative we offer a VPN service<\/a>, which is already regularly being used by most clients.<\/p>\n VPN<\/a> stands for «Virtual Private Network». The VPN client is software that allows an encrypted, secure and authenticated connection from remote locations to the ETH network<\/a>. Once the connection is established, you get an ETH Zurich IP address.<\/p>\n The Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP) is a method for implementing virtual private networks<\/a>. PPTP uses a control channel over TCP<\/a> and a GRE<\/a> tunnel operating to encapsulate PPP<\/a> packets.(Wikipedia<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Due to technological changes regarding access through VPN-Services, our PPTP service is no longer in demand and will be discontinued.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}VPN – Virtual Private Network<\/h2>\n
PPTP<\/h2>\n