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Foil 38 Virtual Private Network (4)

From Introduction to Network Management Lectures at Xi'an Jaotong University -- Sept 1998. by Roman Markowski


Requirements for VPN:
  • end-to-end Quality of Service (QoS) but not available yet.
  • competing standards include: RSVP, IPv6, ATM QoS, MPOA
  • security; reliability; good performance; internet access
Secure tunneling over public PDN:
  • PPTP - Microsoft (In Win NT)
  • L2F - Cisco (Layer 2 forwarding)
  • ATMP - Ascend (Ascend Tunnel Management Protocol)
  • L2TP - Microsoft / Cisco (Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol)
  • IPSec - Internet Protocol Security
Security is based on encryption and authentication
  • Client side x.509 certificates,
  • SecurID; SmartCard, CryptoCard,
  • S/Key authentication module



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