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Many systems evolve incrementally and hence the need arises to retrofit reliability into existing and often very complex systems. Here we discuss some of the major options for performing that task without needing to recode the existing application from scratch.
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This uses the term somewhat loosely: a VPN, in platforms like Windows and Linux, is a fairly specific technology packaging focused on providing secure remote access to a corporate network by tunneling through the firewall using a shared-key cryptographic scheme. In contrast, here we are employing the same term to connote a more general idea of overlaying a network with “other properties” on a base network with “base properties.” Others might call this an overlay network—but, overlay networks, like VPNs, also have come to have a fairly specific meaning, associated with end-to-end implementations of routing. Rather than invent some completely new term, the book uses VPN in a generalized way.
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Birman, K.P. (2012). Retrofitting Reliability into Complex Systems. In: Guide to Reliable Distributed Systems. Texts in Computer Science. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-2416-0_16
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