VPN question

[oscar7]

I have a rather general question about VPN... how does communication from my destination host change when I route traffic through a VPN? Does this affect running services on my PC?

[Jimstep]

Try this link for an explanation of how a VPN works http://www.howstuffworks.com/vpn.htm


I use a VPN to talk to my business from home and do not have any problems with it interfering with my pc activity.

[Hearie]

Nice link Jimstep! Thnx:t

[Jimstep]

:x

[AllGamer]

Originally posted by oscar7
I have a rather general question about VPN... how does communication from my destination host change when I route traffic through a VPN? Does this affect running services on my PC?

when you VPN, anything in your PC becomes part of the Domain you connected to

so anything that was local will be no more

also when you VPN everything is going throught the tunnel, so it's dang slow

:t

[multax]

In my environment, I use my VPN router to connect to my
co-workers through an encrypted tunnel with a unique key for
each tunnel between my machine and each worker. Both sides
(routers) of each tunnel carries the unique key. This allows me
to keep communication ports open for application software
and software licensing without the concern of my ports being
"open" to the world. I'm not sure there is any advantage to a
VPN router unless you are using the encrypted tunnels between
host and client machines. It would function as any router would.

I do not experience slowdown through the encrypted tunnels
presently (2.1+ Mps throughput), but I have had trouble with
slow throughput on some of the previous firmware releases.