Chapter 19. Virtual Private Networks

This chapter covers the following topics:

Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) are fast becoming a widely used technology in today's modern networks. The prominence of the public Internet and advances in encryption technologies have acted as a catalyst in the adoption of VPNs. The most common type of VPN is created using the Internet Protocol Security (IPSec) framework of protocols.

This chapter covers the basic theory behind IPSec and then looks at the configuration of a simple IOS-to-IOS and PIX-to-PIX VPN using IPSec. You then ...

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