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Re: vLANs vs VPNs

2000-04-18 13:20:02


At 12:02 PM 4/18/00 -0400, Michael B. Bellopede wrote:
Virtual Private Network (VPN) and a Virtual LAN (VLAN) are two unrelated
terms.

VPN deals with security and connecting nodes in a private network across a
public IP internetwork.  Read RFC 1853 - IP Tunneling.

1853 is informational.

2003 is the standards-track update (though it isn't cross-linked,
because an standard implicitly updates an informational document :-)

Joe



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