Re: FN-FORUM: ADSL Router Grief

date posted 19th August 2003 21:44

Nick Grimshaw wrote:

> Could someone actually explain to me what 'VPN Passthrough' entails? It
> sounds like buzzword bingo to me - do they just mean 'ignores all GRE
> traffic'?

It means "doesn't stuff up your VPN by mangling the packets". I can't
actually think of a router that /does/ stuff up VPN off the top of my
head (probably because it's so common now) but there certainly used to
be instances of it happening.

Cheers,

Pete
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Peter Croft
PC Associates