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		chias on March 30, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why TCP Over TCP Is a Bad Idea (2001) > When you are running a SOCKS proxy through ssh, you are not doing TCP over TCP Are you sure? SSH uses TCP, and encapsulates the web traffic which also uses TCP... in what way is that not TCP over TCP?

jerf on March 31, 2015 [–]

Here, read this: https://github.com/apenwarr/sshuttle#theory-of-operation

"TCP-over-TCP" and "TCP carried on something that happen to be TCP" turn out to be two very different things.

chias on April 13, 2015 | [–]

Thank you for the link :)

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