Re: VPN: SSH or IPSec???
* Anne Carasik <gator@cacr.caltech.edu> [2003-04-16 18:59 +0200]:
> A true VPN is something like IPSec. SSH and SSL only tunnel TCP-based
> traffic (at least that's what they are supposed to do).
You can actually pipe ppp through ssh and thus tunnel arbitrary ip
packets over ssh, as shown in
http://www.jfranken.de/homepages/johannes/vortraege/ssh2.en.html#ToC12
> If you want a true VPN, do not use SSH or SSL.
I'd rather say, it depends on your setup...
Remember how easy it is to tunnel ssh over http proxies :-) (examples at
http://www.jfranken.de/homepages/johannes/vortraege/ssh3.en.html )
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Johannes Franken
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