Question

Differeance b/w VPN and tunneling , REdirect remote PC traffic thorugh WAN

VPN, Tunneling, WAN

how does VPN and tunnelling differ from each other ? , and what are the ways one can redirect a remote PC host traffic to other remote host traffic and then to server on WAN ? for example Node A in Alaska .. node B in New york .. node A is accessing some server C... i want all traffic of node A come in node B some i can analyse the packet and then redirected to server .. what are the methoods this can be achieved ? thank you in advance

Hi, Spidy

any VPN is a tunnel, but not any tunnel is a VPN... In general, if you have a traffic-encripting (to ensure privacy - the P in VPN) tunnel which connects two physically separated subnets into one network (virtual network - V & N in VPN), you have a VPN.

Having a VPN or a simple non-encrypting tunnel, you can accomplish redirection of the traffic for any purpose using usual routing methods - but you'll need a huge tunnel , since you'll double your trafic this way.

Good luck,

Petko