On Wed, 16 Jan 2002, Maarten ter Huurne wrote:

> > Is there someone here able to stablish a a TCP-tunnel to my PC running
> > Linux and, thus, giving me an IP to be reached from any point of the world?
>
> Eh, what will you be tunneling through, the center of the earth? ;)
> I mean, what is the point of tunneling TCP trough TCP?

I'm not sure that's the end he's trying to achieve, but TCP tunnels that
use TCP/IP transports are well understood. Particularly useful for getting
round firewalls or masking certain types of traffic from prying eyes.


Richard

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