VPN

Karun Dambiec karun at dambiec.com
Tue Oct 30 16:49:27 EST 2001


Jeremy wrote:

>Martijn van Oosterhout writes:
>
>>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.
>>
>
>Got any links?
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It depends how you choose to set up a vpn, and what 
protocols/software/hardware you choose to use.
Some for various vpn software are
www.freeswan.org
vtun.sourceforge.net
http://poptop.lineo.com/

Karun Dambiec(Currently completing CCNA)






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