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Re:How Google Wants to Rewire the Internet by konpikwastaken on Tuesday July 18, 2017 @01:23PM (#14798328)
Very cool, thank you for explaining. Is VPN the primary purpose or could it in theory be extended to work as software routers (as opposed to physical switches your traffic goes through) for all internet traffic once connect?

Let me know if I'm way off base in my understanding.

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Re:How Google Wants to Rewire the Internet by manigandham on Wednesday July 19, 2017 @01:12AM (#14802117)
Well VPN = virtual private network, and that's exactly what it's creating. What you use it for is up to you.

You can access all Google Cloud services over this link and but you can also change your routes to point all internet traffic over this link too (you'll need some cloud VMs with public IPs to be the exit nodes). Not sure what you'd gain from doing that though.

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