Chapter 9. Virtual Private Networks
Virtual private networks (VPNs) of all types are a growing area of network design and deployment. VPNs are used for a wide variety of tasks, from connecting remote users to the corporate network to interconnecting corporate sites. Using VPNs to interconnect sites, building a network on top of a service provider infrastructure, is the focus of this chapter.
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This chapter does not cover carrying VPN information through routing protocols, such as how Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) and Intermediate System-to-Intermediate System (IS-IS) interact with Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) to create MPLS/traffic engineering (TE).
The chapter begins with a look at three options for routing over an MPLS VPN and ...
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