Chapter 14. 3002 Hardware Client

The last two chapters focused on the Cisco VPN Client and Microsoft’s L2TP/IPsec client. Both of these clients are software clients, where VPN software is installed on a PC. Software clients allow a single user to secure a session to a remote VPN gateway. But software clients don’t scale well, especially in environments where more than one person at a location needs to establish a secure session to a remote destination. In this case, it would be better to use a centralized device, like a remote access hardware appliance or a site-to-site gateway device.

This chapter will focus on using one of the Cisco hardware clients: the VPN 3002 hardware client. I’ll discuss the 3002’s features and deployment options, your ...

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