On 22 Oct 2001, at 19:28, Artur Anjos wrote:

> Paul,
>
> I understand that. But people want to use the conection they already
> have, and that it's internet.

You asked for the best tool initially, and that, would be a pair of
compressing and encrypting routers, that implement compression,
encryption, and VPN in hardware using an external dialup modem.

Implementing any of those functions inside the database engine
would "cost" more in performance, footprint and other functionaity.

Paul






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