Re: pptpd is absolute ?

On Thu, Feb 02, 2012 at 11:39:48PM +0000, Khapare Joshi wrote:
> is pptp absolute ?

There are so many meanings of the word absolute.

Taking a guide from Wiktionary ... I shall answer each meaning:

Wiktionary says:
> Loosed from any limitation or condition; uncontrolled; unrestricted;
> unconditional; as, absolute authority, monarchy, sovereignty, an
> absolute promise or command.

pptpd and pptp on Linux are open source, licensed under the GNU GPL.

The protocol PPTP is defined in an IETF RFC.

The protocol is, nowadays, easily subverted and controlled by hostile
attacker.

> Complete in itself; perfect; consummate; faultless.

No.

> Viewed apart from modifying influences or without comparison with
> other objects; actual; real; - opposed to relative and comparative;
> as, absolute motion; absolute time or space.

No.

> Loosed from, or unconnected by, dependence on any other being;
> self-existent; self-sufficing.

No.

> Capable of being thought or conceived by itself alone; unconditioned;
> non-relative.

No.

> (rare) Positive; clear; certain; not doubtful.

No.

> (rare) Authoritative; peremptory. 

No.

> (chemistry) Pure; unmixed; as, absolute alcohol.

Not applicable.

> (grammar) Not immediately dependent on the other parts of the sentence
> in government; as, the case absolute. (See ablative absolute.)

Not applicable.

-- 
James Cameron
http://quozl.linux.org.au/

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