Re: Virtual Private Networking

["Tim Haynes" <trhaynes@yahoo.com>]

"Mike Pfaiffer" <pfaiffer@mts.net> wrote in message
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> william strutts wrote:
>
> > "EmmettSat.net" <technical@emmettgroup.net> wrote in message
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> >
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> Other than applications like tunnelbuilder that you pay for. Are there
any
> >> virtual private networking (VPN PTPP) free applications available?
> >>
> >> Reply via email please.
> >>
> >> Regards
> >> --
> >
> >
> > For an Apple II????? Dude, I think you want the Mac forum.
> >
>
> If the Apple can connect through PPP and use TCP/IP in theory it should
> be possible. If there aren't any applications right now then there is an
> idea for developers. I can see how something like this might be useful.
>
> Later
> Mike

If memory serves, VPN communicate happens over not TCP or UDP but Protocol
50 and another crazy protocol.  So, someone would have to implement those
protocols for the GS and then write the VPN client software.  Note that
information travels encrypted over a VPN connection, so the GS would have to
do all the encrypting/decrypting.  I doubt that even a Transwarp'd,
overclocked GS running at 20MHz could do that fast enough to be useful
beyond console Internet applications.

Just my $0.02.

Cheers!
Tim