said by HD5830Gamer:I did read it. What i mean by "leaking the IP" is can PPTP leak the ISP's IP?
Not sure why you're so focused on the ISP's IP address here.
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courses.ischool.berkeley ··· ader.png is the basic structure of an IP packet.
Short answer, the source and destination IP address have to be visible (ie. "leaked"), but the data in each
packet could /should be encrypted by the VPN, or you can wrap this packet in another packet (think mailing
a letter inside an envelop inside a 2nd envelop ) that would prevent the inner packet's IP addresses / data
from being visible.
If you're so interested / concerned about security, you may want to do alittle reading into the fundamentals
of VPN theory and operation -- I personally recommend
this titlesaid by HD5830Gamer:And far as OpenVPN or L2TP how much more secure are they?
As opposed to what? If it's against PPTP, I'd choose OpenVPN or L2TP any day of the week and twice on saturdays
and sundays. It simply goes back to the fact that the encryption algorithm used in PPTP is simply too weak if you
have a requirement for high security. End of discussion.
Regards