August 2000
Intermediate to advanced
800 pages
21h 5m
English
Content preview from Microsoft® Windows® 2000 Security Handbook
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Chapter 20. VPNs
In this chapter
Welcome to the cutting edge. If you want to work with one of the hottest new technologies on the market, Virtual private networks (VPNs) fit the bill. Everyone has the answer to your connectivity issues, and they're going to save you a fortune in frame-relay costs in the bargain. Your ISP wants to sell you an outsourced VPN, your firewall vendor wants you to buy its integrated VPN, and a dozen router vendors want to sell you on their hardware-based solutions. Finally, there are solutions that run on a network operating system, such as Novell's Border Manager, or the VPN bundled with Windows 2000. Everyone is getting into the ...