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Revision as of 12:02, 12 September 2005
Preface
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Definition
A regular phyiscally existing network consisting of cables and routers/switches/etc is called a network. You run the various known internet protocols layer 1-4 on it. You can also use those protocols to emulate a virtual network. This is mostly done in layer 2 (IP). You tunnel the data of the virtual network encapsulated in IP-Packets for example. If you secure your tunnel as well with various encryption methods one might call the tunneled data a virtual private network. This is used in various scenarios, mostly for tunneling sensitive information over an inherently insecure architecture - for example to connect two corporate LANs over the internet.
Theory
Implementation
OpenVPN
PPTP (Microsoft)
Preface
How does it work?
Authentication
Encryption
Servers
Implementation Windows
Implementation Unix
mppe-patch
pptpd
Clients
Windows
Linux
MacOS