I have a question here. What is a VPN Client? I am confused.
The reason why I am confused is because I use a VPN Client every time I use the Internet. But I'm not exactly sure what it is or what it does. It's basically a little program thingy that connects me to Monash University (my old university and my brother's current university). The reason I use it is so I can have access to all of their pages, databases, and journals on the internet that you can only access through their proxy, and they have some great resources that are really useful for my current study. What happens is that I open the VPN Client program, log in with a Monash University login and password (my brother's), and then I'm connected and can access all of the Monash stuff. If I don't login to their proxy I can't access all of the stuff.
I was just basically wondering if anyone knows what how a VPN Client works. Is basically all it does is connect me to the Monash Uni proxy? What is a proxy anyway? I know that it changes my IP address, too.
I don't need tech support per se, I'm just curious as I don't really know much about 'VPN Clients' and 'proxies.'
