Re: [gentoo-user] Mnemonics for everyday stuff

2008-12-24 Thread Mark David Dumlao
On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 6:39 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: >> Mark David Dumlao wrote: >> > tun - to uniplexed node? >> > tap - to any person? > As I used them they are not related. DSA and RSA are key hash algorithms, I > can never tell them apart and have to haul out the man page to rediscover > whic

Re: [gentoo-user] Mnemonics for everyday stuff

2008-12-24 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Wednesday 24 December 2008, 11:39, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > >> DSA / RSA > > >> tun / tap > > > > > > tun - to uniplexed node? > > > tap - to any person? > > > it makes some vague sense > > > > I think what Alan refers to is: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TUN/TAP > > > > I'm not sure if this

Re: [gentoo-user] Mnemonics for everyday stuff

2008-12-24 Thread pk
Alan McKinnon wrote: > As I used them they are not related. DSA and RSA are key hash algorithms, I > can never tell them apart and have to haul out the man page to rediscover > which one I tell my users to use :-) > > tun & tap - same thing. One is routed, one is more like level 2. Do you think

Re: [gentoo-user] Mnemonics for everyday stuff

2008-12-24 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 24 December 2008 12:27:29 pk wrote: > Mark David Dumlao wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 1:36 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> DSA / RSA > >> tun / tap > > > > tun - to uniplexed node? > > tap - to any person? > > it makes some vague sense > > I think what Alan refers to is: > http://

Re: [gentoo-user] Mnemonics for everyday stuff

2008-12-24 Thread pk
Mark David Dumlao wrote: > On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 1:36 AM, Alan McKinnon > wrote: >> DSA / RSA >> tun / tap > tun - to uniplexed node? > tap - to any person? > it makes some vague sense I think what Alan refers to is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TUN/TAP I'm not sure if this is what he seeks:

Re: [gentoo-user] Mnemonics for everyday stuff

2008-12-23 Thread Mark David Dumlao
On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 1:36 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > DSA / RSA > tun / tap tun - to uniplexed node? tap - to any person? it makes some vague sense