[Info-vax] Still no IPSEC for TCP/IP services?

[Richard Maher]

Hi Dirk,

"Dirk Munk" <munk at home.nl> wrote in message 
news:4797c$4fbac358$5ed43999$22551 at cache60.multikabel.net...
> I'm planning to set up a couple of new OpenVMS systems, and I was thinking 
> of using IPSEC as well. I was amazed to find that IPSEC is not included in 
> the present version of TCP/IP services. It was included in the Early 
> Adopters Kit for TCP/IP services 5.7 in 2007 (!!!!), but it never made it 
> to the final version and wasn't added later on.
>
> As far as I know IPSEC is a mandatory part of IPv6, so the IPv6 stack of 
> TCP/IP services isn't complete either. It may well be that there is more 
> modern functionality missing in the IPv6 stack
>
> Does any one know what happened, why was HP not capable of producing a 
> full functional IPSEC stack in 5 years time? Even Windows Vista has 
> IPSEC........
>

Music to my ears, but sadly we're the only people dancing :-(

Just search this newsgroup for IPSEC and you will see all of the 
compellingly valid arguments for its release. Lamentably, trying to explain 
the need for IPSEC to this group of shitbags is like trying to explain to an 
anorexic why they need to eat.

I like Matt and hope he keeps his job but with 30,000 jobs going at HP I 
*know* there are still a useless bunch of wankers on HP/VMS sponging of the 
fine work of long gone engineers. There is plenty of fat to be trimmed at 
HP/VMS and the fuckers who've held back on IPSEC is a great place to start!

Let them stand up and take a bow!

Cheers Richard Maher