Re: FN-FORUM: ADSL Router Grief

date posted 19th August 2003 23:10

It's the term that's used, I'm afraid. Not really any more stupid than most
IT terminology. Or cars - I mean, clutch? Bonnet? WTF?

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Nick Grimshaw" [EMAIL REMOVED]
To: [EMAIL REMOVED]
Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2003 10:58 PM
Subject: RE: FN-FORUM: ADSL Router Grief


>
> 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. }
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