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IP over rclone                                                        April 2025

The normal networking stack usually looks something like this:
    Application/TCP/IP/Ethernet
But with the help of this project we can make it look like this:
    Application/TCP/IP/Google Drive/TCP/IP/Ethernet
(at the cost of some performance). Using this we can make two distant computers
appear to be on the same local network through their shared connection to a
Google Drive folder (or any other cloud storage provider supported by rclone).

Essentially its a python script which creates a virtual network interface Linux
only). Then it handles the transport of IP packets to and from this interface
by invoking rclone commands which upload and download IP packets from a shared
cloud storage location.

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