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From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
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> 	I asked a while back about setting up a Virtual Private Network.
> Many people suggested SKIP and 1 suggested swIPe.  I have been looking at
> the SKIP documentation, and I think we may have had a slight misunderstanding.

That's OK.  Once you understand routing a little better, you'll be fine.

> 	From what I have read so far in the SKIP docs, it is to connect
> Machine A to Machine B via a "secure" pipe.  And I have seen a little
> bit about possible connection Machine A to LAN C.  But what I need to do
> is connect LAN C to LAN D.  Is this possible with SKIP, swIPe, or a
> player to be named later?

You use a secure pipe between two machines, and route all traffic 
between the networks in question via the pipe.

mike