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Administrator’s Guide
VPN Tunnel
This sub-menu allows the configuration of an L2TP (Layer-2 Tunneling Protocol) and/or IPSec (Internet
Protocol Security) -based VPN tunnel.
IPsec is a protocol suite for securing IP communications by
authenticating and encrypting each IP packet of a data stream.
L2TP tunnels, on the other hand,
are used for the transport of other protocols (e.g. Point-to-Point Protocol - PPP) inside UDP datagrams
(default port 1701). Since, however, L2TP does not provide any encryption or confidentiality by itself,
it is frequently combined with an encryption protocol (e.g. IPSec) which iis passed within the tunnel to
provide privacy.
Figure 11.8: L2TP VPN Tunnel
To configure the VPN tunnel, use the
Status/Type
drop-down list to enable and at the same time
select the type of VPN. Available options are L2TP only, IPSec only, L2TP/IPSec and Off for disabled VPN
service.
Once the type of VPN has been selected, the relevant parameters appear on the web configuration
page. In the case of an L2TP-based VPN, these include the public
IP Address
of the remote server, along
with the
Subnet
and
Netmask
behind the remote server. For tunnel authorization purposes, a
Username
and
Password
combination must be supplied (with same values configured on the remote server).
If IPSec is enabled on the VPN tunnel, some more parameters appear.
The
Remote Server
is
configured like in the case of the L2TP tunnel, but now it is also required to provide information about
the local subnet:
Subnet
and
Netmask
under the
Local Server
heading. Authorization is in this case
based on a
Pre-shared key
(common for both endpoints of the VPN tunnel) and, finally, parameters of
the encryption algorithm are specified using the corresponding drop-down lists under the
IPSec Options
heading.
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