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   From: daniel47@nomail.afraid.org   
      
   On 22/12/2025 7:31 am, rbowman wrote:   
   > On Sun, 21 Dec 2025 21:35:17 +1100, Daniel70 wrote:   
   >   
   >> Splitting hairs, maybe, ..... but I would have thought LAN was with-in a   
   >> House, WAN was with-in a (commercial) Building, maybe .... and Internet   
   >> was the outside world!!   
   >   
   > The Internet is a WAN but a WAN is not necessarily the Internet. Consider   
   > VPNs and leased lines if you want another rabbit hole to fall into. How a   
   > T1 leased line works is enough to make my head hurt.  Conceptually VPNs   
   > are easier to understand. They're Russian dolls, packets within packets   
   > with the outermost packet being publically routable between gateways that   
   > can do the address translation.   
   >   
   Waaaayyyy above the Comms networks I used to work back in the 70s/80s/90s!   
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   Daniel70   
      
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