What is VPN?

[mrk]

The real question is why is your uncle bare in your mind?

 

[LiE]

Virtual Porn Network

 

[PistolPete]

The crux of the matter is that a VPN provides you with access to "private" network resources that would otherwise be inaccessible from the current network e.g. the public internet

Incorrect, a VPN is simply one network encaspulated securely within another.

, and, crucially, traffic sent across this virtual private network never leaves the bounds of it.

Again, incorrect as there is nothing stopping you using a gateway on the remotely located segment to gain access to further subnets

"Private network" implies the machines on it use a private IP addressing scheme.

Wrong again, it implies nothing more than the network is not public. The addressing used is completely irrelevant.

"Virtual" implies that the private network is being virtualised over a public network, through the means of PKI based encryption to ensure the privacy.

Again, utter tosh. It is a virtual network because it is not a physical, tangible network.

A better description of these particular services how they stand today is "secure routing tunnel". But hey, VPN sounds cooler to the laymen that use them.

That is the one thing I do agree with!

 

[Pigeon_Killer]

VPN is a network that people out in the field constantly complain about because it's not as quick as their Internet at home or the network at work. Youtube generally doesn't run as fast nor does downloading apps, movies and music via iTunes. We know it's ******* slow, STFU about it

 

[gillywibble]

If someone created a forum account using VPN, presumably there is no way of spotting that they are say, a previously banned member?

I don't want to test this hypothesis by creating a new account and going "guess who?" as I'm not the trolling type

 

[DJMK4]

A VPN doesn't just mean your a downloading illegal content! Just means virtual private network where traffic is usually sent down an encrypted tunnel to a "private" network that would not be accessable othetwise. useful for many things most of which include remote dial in communication to a network or you can have IPSEC site to site VPN.

It's just that the Technolgy has been used in the black market

 

[Theophany]

traffic is usually sent down an encrypted tunnel to a "private" network that would not be accessable othetwise

You mean like this?

 

[nutcase]

VPN is a network that people out in the field constantly complain about because it's not as quick as their Internet at home or the network at work. Youtube generally doesn't run as fast nor does downloading apps, movies and music via iTunes. We know it's ******* slow, STFU about it

Amen to this! I'm 6 feet from the server, you're 600 miles from the server, of course it's going to be slower!!!

 

[memyselfandi]

VPN is a network that people out in the field constantly complain about because it's not as quick as their Internet at home or the network at work. Youtube generally doesn't run as fast nor does downloading apps, movies and music via iTunes. We know it's ******* slow, STFU about it

Actually if I VPN into work from home it's faster than being directly plugged into the network in the office (due to the office link to the rest of the corporate network being underspec'ed and overloaded and the VPN concentrators being in the same Data Centres as most of the services I need to access ... )

(at those who spec'ed our office link not you)

 

[nutcase]

Ha ha there is that sometimes

I finally managed to persuade management to replace the 10/100 switches with gigabit - just got to find time at a weekend to put them in now.