October 2020
Intermediate to advanced
481 pages
17h 35m
English
One distinguishing component of current VPNs is the use of a variety of transport protocols to establish connections. This is helpful not only because the protocols have different capabilities, encryption strengths, and authentication mechanisms, but because each can run at different layers of the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) Reference Model. The OSI model is the standard seven-layer conceptual tool that describes protocols and their corresponding functions. Each layer communicates with its peer layer on the other end of a communication session. Although the OSI model is helpful in discussing protocols, most protocols are not in full compliance with it.
In the case of VPNs, the protocols ...
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