Thanks so much.
This is exactly the kind of basic information everyone else takes for granted that I did NOT know.
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| David C. Shamino
May 20 |
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Starting a new thread, since this is likely to get very big very fast.
Continuing the discussion from Do You Use It? VPNs:
Can anyone help me find any articles explaining what to use a VPN for, how to configure it after installing it, and how to verify it works? Will it create a connection to a home machine with sharing turned on over the internet? I’ve often wanted to do that.
A VPN (virtual private network is a system for connecting two computers over a large network (like the Internet) in a way that makes them appear to be sharing a single local network together.
You may already have experience with the concept. For instance, if you use (or once used) a broadband Internet service that requires you to connect with PPPoE, then you’ve been doing this all the time. In that situation, your router uses the PPP protocol to connect to some server in the service provider’s network. It then creates a virtual network interface corresponding to that PPP connection. All your Internet traffic is transmitted to that remote server via the PPP connection. Your service provider’s PPP server then forwards the traffic on to its final Internet destination.