CCENT Cisco Certified Entry Networking Technician Study Guide: (ICND1 Exam 640-822), 2nd Edition
by Todd Lammle
Virtual Private Networks
I'd be pretty willing to bet you've heard the term VPN more than once. Maybe you even know what one is, but just in case, a virtual private network (VPN) allows the creation of private networks across untrusted networks, enabling privacy and tunneling of non-TCP/IP protocols. Figure 9.2 shows the typical VPN network in use today.
VPNs are used daily to give remote users and disjointed networks connectivity over a public medium like the Internet instead of using more expensive permanent means. For example, instead of shelling out for a point-to-point connection between two sites (which is pretty secure in itself), you can use a less-expensive Internet connection to each site and then run a VPN tunnel between the sites. ...
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