[45396] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Fwd: SlashDot: "Comcast Gunning for NAT Users"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven J. Sobol)
Thu Jan 31 20:40:27 2002
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 20:39:38 -0500 (EST)
From: "Steven J. Sobol" <sjsobol@JustThe.net>
To: Todd Suiter <todd@s4r.com>
Cc: "Eric A. Hall" <ehall@ehsco.com>,
Joel Jaeggli <joelja@darkwing.uoregon.edu>,
Dan Hollis <goemon@anime.net>, <nanog@merit.edu>
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On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, Todd Suiter wrote:
> The question I have is, by the letter of the terms, is running ssh
> a 'VPN'? Or if I use a VPN client to connect to my datacenters from home?
> Or is it you 'hosting' a VPN?
For my purposes, no. I don't do port forwarding. Although if you REALLY
want to stretch the definition of a VPN you could still say I was running
a VPN.
I suppose if you wanted to stretch the definition, you could also say I'm
running a VPN if I'm doing port forwarding...
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