Back in the day, I used an open source program called NistNET to emulate a WAN for my company’s network test lab on a linux machine. I was able to solve a multitude of issues and test our applications in a WAN environment with this product. Unfortunately, NistNET is no longer maintained, and until recently […]
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SSH Tunnelling (aka Poor Man’s VPN)
Tunnelling of TCP traffic can be performed from the ssh command on Linux or with Putty on Windows, and can be thought of as a poor man’s VPN. A VPN is a virtual private network, or a method of using a public network such as the internet to securely transmit data via an encrypted “tunnel”. […]
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