RE: FN-FORUM: ADSL Router Grief

date posted 19th August 2003 22:27

Kathy:
> > 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'?
>
> VPN passthrough means that the router allows PPTP and/or IPSEC (ports and
> protocols) to pass through to an existing (defined) VPN server on the
> internal network, rather than providing the VPN server itself.

Like I said then - buzzword bingo.
My router does NAT and port-forwarding, but no-one calls that 'IP
passthrough' (or, god forbid, 'HTTP passthrough'). I suppose 'ignores all
non-TCP/UDP/ICMP IP traffic' doesn't have the same ring.

I remember the 'IT Manager' at a client informing me that his new router
supported 'VPN passthrough'. When I asked if he knew what that meant, he
looked all blank...

- Nick Grimshaw
{ if you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate. }