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Virtual Private Networks, Second Edition

By
Mike Erwin, Charlie Scott, Paul Wolfe
Publisher:
O'Reilly Media
Released:
December 1998
Pages:
228

Product Editions

  1. Virtual Private Networks, Second Edition - December 1998
  2. Virtual Private Networks - March 1998 (out of print)
Description
This book explains how to plan and build a Virtual Private Network (VPN), a collection of technologies that creates secure connections or "tunnels" over regular Internet lines. It discusses costs, configuration, and how to install and use VPN technologies that are available for Windows NT and Unix, such as PPTP and L2TP, Altavista Tunnel, Cisco PIX, and the secure shell (SSH). New features in the second edition include SSH and an expanded description of the IPSec standard.
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Table of Contents

  1. Chapter 1 Why Build a Virtual Private Network?

    1. What Does a VPN Do?

    2. Security Risks of the Internet

    3. How VPNs Solve Internet Security Issues

    4. VPN Solutions

    5. A Note on IP Address and Domain Name Conventions Used in This Book

  2. Chapter 2 Basic VPN Technologies

    1. Firewall Deployment

    2. Encryption and Authentication

    3. VPN Protocols

    4. Methodologies for Compromising VPNs

    5. Patents and Legal Ramifications

  3. Chapter 3 Wide Area, Remote Access, and the VPN

    1. General WAN, RAS, and VPN Concepts

    2. VPN Versus WAN

    3. VPN Versus RAS

  4. Chapter 4 Implementing Layer 2 Connections

    1. Differences Between PPTP, L2F, and L2TP

    2. How PPTP Works

    3. Features of PPTP

  5. Chapter 5 Configuring and Testing Layer 2 Connections

    1. Installing and Configuring PPTP on a Windows NT RAS Server

    2. Configuring PPTP for Dial-up Networking on a Windows NT Client

    3. Configuring PPTP for Dial-up Networking on a Windows 95 or 98 Client

    4. Enabling PPTP on Remote Access Switches

    5. Making the Calls

    6. Troubleshooting Problems

    7. Using PPTP with Other Security Measures

  6. Chapter 6 Implementing the AltaVista Tunnel 98

    1. Advantages of the AltaVista Tunnel System

    2. AltaVista Tunnel Limitations

    3. How the AltaVista Tunnel Works

    4. VPNs and AltaVista

  7. Chapter 7 Configuring and Testing the AltaVista Tunnel

    1. Getting Busy

    2. Installing the AltaVista Tunnel

    3. Configuring the AltaVista Tunnel Extranet and Telecommuter Server

    4. Configuring the AltaVista Telecommuter Client

    5. Troubleshooting Problems

  8. Chapter 8 Creating a VPN with the Unix Secure Shell

    1. The SSH Software

    2. Building and Installing SSH

    3. SSH Components

    4. Creating a VPN with PPP and SSH

    5. Troubleshooting Problems

    6. A Performance Evaluation

  9. Chapter 9 The Cisco PIX Firewall

    1. The Cisco PIX Firewall

    2. The PIX in Action

    3. Configuring the PIX as a Gateway

    4. Configuring the Other VPN Capabilities

  10. Chapter 10 Managing and Maintaining Your VPN

    1. Choosing an ISP

    2. Solving VPN Problems

    3. Delivering Quality of Service

    4. Security Suggestions

    5. Keeping Yourself Up-to-Date

  11. Chapter 11 A VPN Scenario

    1. The Topology

    2. Central Office

    3. Large Branch Office

    4. Small Branch Offices

    5. Remote Access Users

    6. A Network Diagram

  1. Appendix A Emerging Internet Technologies

    1. IPv6

    2. IPSec

    3. S/WAN

  2. Appendix B Resources, Online and Otherwise

    1. Software Updates

    2. The IETF

    3. CERT Advisories

    4. The Trade Press

    5. Networking and Intranet-Related Web Sites

    6. Usenet Newsgroups

    7. Mailing Lists

  3. Colophon

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Product Details
Title:
Virtual Private Networks, Second Edition
By:
Mike Erwin, Charlie Scott, Paul Wolfe
Publisher:
O'Reilly Media
Formats:
  • Print
  • Safari Books Online
Print Release:
December 1998
Pages:
228
Print ISBN:
978-1-56592-529-8
| ISBN 10:
1-56592-529-7
Customer Reviews
About the Authors

  1. Mike Erwin

    Charlie has also coauthored a half-dozen Internet-related books (many with Mike and Paul), on topics ranging from electronic commerce to CGI programming. When he finds spare time, Charlie likes to write (as of yet unpublished) fiction, read, and go to the gym. He also enjoys spending time with his wife, Mary, and their four beautiful felines. Mike Erwin is the president and chief executive officer of OuterNet Connection Strategies, Inc. Mike has served these posts for the last four years, during which he also worked for Apple Computer, Inc., architecting and implementing connectivity, application, scripting, and development support for Apple's Worldwide Support Center. Mike is the coauthor of several other works, including the CGI Bible, Building Web Commerce Sites, and the 60 Minute Guide to VRML. Mike's technology related interests involve encryption algorithms, super computing, Distributed Operating Systems, universe game simulations, and building secondary securities markets on the Net. Before becoming completely immersed in work, Mike used to find that his hobbies included playing hearts, drinking cheap vodka, staying up until dawn, and doodling with oil paints with his left hand. Mike's current favorite things include dabbling with theoretical and particle physics, martial arts training, gambling, securities prospecting, and, of course, sleeping.

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  2. Charlie Scott

    Charlie Scott is the senior vice president of OuterNet Connection Strategies, Inc., an Internet Service Provider and outsource company based in Austin, Texas, specializing in innovative and emergent technologies. At OuterNet, he helps create and implement new products for their network operations center and co-location facilities. While an undergraduate at the University of Texas at Austin, Charlie was a research assistant in a cognitive science lab, and planned on going to graduate school in that field. He was eventually able to get his B.A. in psychology. But he always enjoyed working with computers, and his exposure to the Internet at UT deviated him enough to abandon all plans for graduate school and start working with computer networks. The next few years saw him at Texas Instruments, IBM, and Wayne-Dresser before he helped found OuterNet. Charlie has also coauthored a half-dozen Internet-related books (many with Mike and Paul), on topics ranging from electronic commerce to CGI programming. When he finds spare time, Charlie likes to write (as of yet unpublished) fiction, read, and go to the gym. He also enjoys spending time with his wife, Mary, and their four beautiful felines.

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  3. Paul Wolfe

    Charlie has also coauthored a half-dozen Internet-related books (many with Mike and Paul), on topics ranging from electronic commerce to CGI programming. When he finds spare time, Charlie likes to write (as of yet unpublished) fiction, read, and go to the gym. He also enjoys spending time with his wife, Mary, and their four beautiful felines. Paul Wolfe has done everything from driving M1A1 tanks in Desert Storm to slinging computer chips for Motorola. He now divides his time between his family and OuterNet, as well as writing. He has written four books in the last two years covering such topics as Windows NT Web servers, Internet commerce, VRML, and Virtual Private Networks. He dreams of restoring his 1986 Toyota Tercel to its former glory and racing it on the stock car circuit.

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Colophon

Our look is the result of reader comments, our own experimentation, and feedback from distribution channels. Distinctive covers complement our distinctive approach to technical topics, breathing personality and life into potentially dry subjects. The animals featured on the cover of Virtual Private Networks are puffins. Puffins are small, unusual-looking birds with large triangular bills, short necks, and stocky bodies. They live in colonies, sometimes tens of thousands of birds together, along the icy shores of the northern regions of the globe. Though rarely seen outside of the northern regions, there are approximately 15 million puffins in the world today. Despite their short wings, puffins can fly, although they spend most of their time swimming or walking erect on land. While flying they make a purring sound.

Here's some more puffin stuff: Puffins' primary food sources are small fish and marine animals. They dive for fish and use their wings to swim underwater to catch them. They can carry as many as 30 fish in their mouth at one time, to bring back to shore for their young. Puffin pairs often mate for life. Usually one egg is laid per pair, and both mother and father incubate the egg and feed the young hatchling. Edie Freedman designed the cover of this book, using a 19th-century engraving from the Dover Pictorial Archive. The cover layout was produced with Quark XPress 3.3 using the ITC Garamond font. Whenever possible, our books use RepKover™, a durable and flexible lay-flat binding. If the page count exceeds RepKover™s limit, perfect binding is used.

The inside layout was designed by Nancy Priest and implemented in FrameMaker by Mike Sierra. The text and heading fonts are ITC Garamond Light and Garamond Book. The illustrations that appear in the book were created in Macromedia Freehand 7.0 and screen shots were created in Adobe Photoshop 4.0 by Robert Romano. This colophon was written by Clairemarie Fisher O'Leary.

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