VPN Basics!!

Oh man! Ad-blocking software has been detected! :'(

This website is run by the community, for the community... and it needs advertisements in order to keep running. Blocking our ads means your killing our stats!
Please disable your ad-block, or become a premium member to hide all advertisements and this notice.

Hi All,

hope this is in the right forum

Does anyone know of a tutorial on the web covering the very basics and upwards of VPN? Would like to get to learn about it.

Kat

 

Could try this thread?

 

Kat the other links may be a tad confusing.

Try reading this first..

Basically, a VPN is a private network that uses a public network (usually the Internet) to connect remote sites or users together. Instead of using a dedicated, real-world connection such as leased line, a VPN uses "virtual" connections routed through the Internet from the company's private network to the remote site or employee. In this article, you will gain a fundamental understanding of VPNs, and learn about basic VPN components, technologies, tunneling and security.

Read the full article here

 

Good article

 

Thanks Spark/Si. Looks a good read Pete, cheers.

Kat

 

One thing to remember with VPN's - the extra overhead in each packet (especially if using GRE+IPSec) can cause fragmentation. Make sure to check the MTU's of the devices/hosts as fragmentation can cause various problems, such as being able to ping hosts through the VPN but not able to sync servers across the same VPN.

Spice_Weasel