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A look at NuFW

A look at NuFW

Posted Aug 4, 2005 4:53 UTC (Thu) by melevittfl (subscriber, #5409)
Parent article: A look at NuFW

Maybe I'm missing something, but couldn't you do the same thing, plus gain encryption, with a
VPN?


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A look at NuFW

Posted Aug 4, 2005 8:26 UTC (Thu) by Regit (guest, #31516) [Link]

As pointed in the NuFW FAQ, VPN authentication does not work with multiusers computers where NuFW can differenciate the users connected on the computer. Furthermore, encryption is not always necessary and can introduce bottleneck in term of performance because all encryption is done on the gateway.

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