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[Scott Moynes]

* Paul L. Allen (pla at softflare.com) wrote:
> My drunken recollection of stunnel is that it tunnels tcp over tcp
> and therefore suffers from exponential backoffs.

It doesn't on the former, so I assume it doesn't on the latter.

> I could be wrong on this, but I'm pretty sure I dismissed stunnel as
> a VPN technology years ago, Using a VPN technology to do this sort
> of thing is a good solution, if only there were a VPN technology I
> believed to be worthy.

Indeed, but often it is difficult to find good solutions to dumb
problems. Sometimes acceptable is all you can hope for.

-- 
Scott Moynes
"Computer science is as much about computers
as astronomy is about telescopes." -- Dijkstra


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