Linux Router's

[Kevin O'Gorman]

On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 10:00:57AM -0700, Bill Campbell wrote:
> On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 09:48:18PM -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> ...
> >It's model BEFSR41 ver 2 from Linksys.  There are indeed a lot of models,
> >so I'm not all that sure of features.  I've installed two of these, though,
> >and they form the local 100MB LAN for in-house traffic in both places,
> >as well as handling the uplink to the Cable/DSL modems (one of each).
> 
> As I thought, that's their basic 4-port switch without VPN.  The one I'm
> talking about is their model, BEFVP41, which has IPSec VPN capabilities.
> 	http://www.linksys.com/products/product.asp?grid=23&prid=411
> 
> Bill

Okay, I'm ready for an education.  In what circumstances would VPN matter
to me?  Right now I assume VPN is "virtual private network" and guess that's
only useful if you want to tunnel through the internet to another known
private subnet that's an extension of the local one.

++ kevin


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