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by strken 87 days ago
Can you elaborate? The metaphor is a good description of how a VPN works, if not plain old TCP/IP.
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IshKebab 86 days ago
IP packets have the source address in them so you can directly reply. It's not hierarchical.
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strken 82 days ago
Sure, but a VPN makes it hierarchical by rewriting packets.
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