Greg Kettmann opined:
>Another negative of Starband (or DirectPC) is that they both use (to the
>best of my knowledge) a VPN. That is they encrypt and then decrypt all
>traffic to and from your site. Your connection is actually to their
>encrypt/decrypt server farm. This precludes any VPN's of your own (if you
>use them). I do use a VPN and so any VPN traffic would have failed since
>you can't tunnel within a tunnel. This according to their FAQ's and from
>phone calls I made.
Color me confused! A VPN consists of IP packets that have an encrypted
payload that happens to be another IP packet (each end of the VPN packet
decrypts and re-routes the corrected packet). How does their system know
what is in the packets, and why is it looking at them?
I could see it being a problem if their VPN software runs on your
computer, not in their box. I'll have to check their web-site.
jeff
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