Re: Peer to Peer using Putty?

From: Richard E. Silverman (res_at_qoxp.net)
Date: 07/24/03

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    >>>>> "JW" == JasonW <no@no.com> writes:

        JW> "Create a tunnel" refers to making a VPN connection between two
        JW> computers. Basically I would like to encrypt all communications
        JW> in a peer to peer session.

    SSH is not a VPN protocol. Although the TCP forwarding features of
    various implementations can give a VPN-like effect in some cases, it's not
    general or transparent. For instance, you can certainly forward VNC over
    SSH. 

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  Richard Silverman
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