December 2020
Intermediate to advanced
736 pages
22h 40m
English
GRE and IPsec
Today we review two overlay network technologies: Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE) and Internet Protocol Security (IPsec). An overlay network is a virtual network that is built on top of an underlay network. The underlay is a traditional network, which provides connectivity between network devices such as routers and switches. In the case of GRE and IPsec, the overlay is most often represented as tunnels or virtual private networks (VPNs) that are built on top of a public insecure network such as the Internet. These tunnels overcome segmentation and security shortcomings of traditional ...