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Re:Why TCP Over TCP Is a Bad Idea (2001) by chias on Monday March 30, 2015 @10:54AM (#9289902)
> 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?

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Re:Why TCP Over TCP Is a Bad Idea (2001) by jerf on Tuesday March 31, 2015 @01:33PM (#9298250)
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.

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Re:Why TCP Over TCP Is a Bad Idea (2001) by chias on Monday April 13, 2015 @03:30PM (#9369847)
Thank you for the link :)
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