Describe the two types of VPN networks.
Site-to-site VPNs:
- A site-to-site VPN is an extension of classic WAN networking and can connect a branch office network to a company headquarters network.
- Hosts send and receive TCP/IP traffic through a VPN “gateway,” which could be a router, PIX firewall appliance, or Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA).
- The VPN gateway is responsible for encapsulating and encrypting outbound traffic for all the traffic from a particular site and sending it through a VPN tunnel over the Internet to a peer VPN gateway at the target site.
- On receipt, the peer VPN gateway strips the headers, decrypts the content, and relays the packet toward the target host inside its private network.
Remote-access VPNs:
- Mobile users and telecommuters use remote-access VPNs extensively.
- Remote VPN connections typically take advantage of existing broadband connections.
- Each host typically has VPN client software that encapsulates and encrypts that traffic before sending it over the Internet to the VPN gateway at the edge of the target network.
- On receipt, the VPN gateway handles the data in the same way it would handle data from a site-to-site VPN.
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