LevelOne WBR-3460 Door User Manual


 
Appendix C - About VPNs
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Common VPN Situations
VPN Pass-through
Figure 76: VPN Pass-through
Here, a PC on the LAN behind the Router/Gateway is using VPN software, but the
Router/Gateway is NOT acting as a VPN endpoint. It is only allowing the VPN connec-
tion.
The PC software can use any VPN protocol supported by the remote VPN.
The remote VPN Server must support client PCs which are behind a NAT router,
and so have an IP address which is not valid on the Internet.
The Router/Gateway requires no VPN configuration, since it is not acting as a
VPN endpoint.
Client PC to VPN Gateway
Figure 77: Client PC to VPN Server
In this situation, the PC must run appropriate VPN client software in order to connect,
via the Internet, to the Wireless ADSL2/2+ Modem Router or other VPN Gateway.
Once connected, the client PC has the same access to LAN resources as PCs on the
local LAN (unless restricted by the network administrator).
IPsec is not the only protocol which can be used in this situation, but the Wireless
ADSL2/2+ Modem Router supports IPsec ONLY.
Windows 2000 and Windows XP include an IPsec VPN client program. However,
configuration of this client program for use with the Wireless ADSL2/2+ Modem
Router is very complex and beyond the scope of this document.