From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Apr 7 9:46:15 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from awfulhak.org (awfulhak.force9.co.uk [195.166.136.63]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AFD4A15855 for ; Wed, 7 Apr 1999 09:46:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brian@lan.awfulhak.org) Received: from keep.lan.Awfulhak.org (keep.lan.Awfulhak.org [172.16.0.8]) by awfulhak.org (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id RAA10938; Wed, 7 Apr 1999 17:44:02 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@lan.awfulhak.org) Received: from keep.lan.Awfulhak.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by keep.lan.Awfulhak.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA25106; Wed, 7 Apr 1999 11:23:36 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199904071023.LAA25106@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Andrew McNaughton Cc: Brian Somers , freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vpn: swan, ssh/ppp or skip In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 07 Apr 1999 17:12:05 +1200." <199904070512.RAA03864@aniwa.sky> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 07 Apr 1999 11:23:31 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Any arrangement that routes through a TCP tunnel means that if a packet has to be re-transmitted then all of the connections routed through the tunnel have to wait for it. > > This isn't going to be an issue for light usage, and ssh makes a lot of sense for things like connecting into a remote network from home, but it's probably not the best for linking networks together with more than a few people at either end. I agree. Something like nos-tun is better WRT not having the extraneous layer, but it also can't encrypt/compress.... > Andrew McNaughton [.....] > ----------- > Andrew McNaughton > andrew@squiz.co.nz > http://www.newsroom.co.nz/ -- Brian Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message