VPN

[Martijn van Oosterhout]

On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 11:29:32PM +0000, Jeremy wrote:
> Also, how does the routing work?  I thought that VPNs are connected in a
> star arrangement, which means that network speed drops to 1/X for X
> simultaneous users.

On simple VPNs yes. However, there do exist VPN systems that actually
implement an ARP type protocol and allow machines to talk to eachother
directly, thus emulating a fully connected network. These don't work so well
with NAT but it can be done.

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