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RE: Open Source (was Simple SSL/TLS - Some Questions)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Clay)
Thu Oct 9 09:40:09 2003
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Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2003 11:26:57 +0100 (BST)
From: Peter Clay <pete@flatline.org.uk>
To: Peter Gutmann <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz>
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On Thu, 9 Oct 2003, Peter Gutmann wrote:
> IP-over-TCP has some potential performance problems, see
Yeah. I hope they won't be too serious. My understanding is that links
with few tunnelled connections and low packet loss work OK.
> >If someone out there wants to write VPN software that becomes widely used,
> >then they should make a free IP-over-TCP solution that works on Windows and
> >Linux which uses password authentication.
>
> Some guy called Ylonen already did this in 1995 :-).
That's just TCP tunnelling, or are there SSH implementations with virtual
network interfaces that I don't know about?
Pete
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