Virtual Private Networks: Technologies and Solutions (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series) - Softcover

Yuan, Ruixi; Strayer, W. Timothy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0201702096 ISBN 13: 9780201702095

Publisher: Addison Wesley, 2001

Synopsis

VPNs enable any enterprise to utilize the Internet as its own secure private network. In this book, two leading VPN implementers offer a start-to-finish, hands-on guide to constructing and operating secure VPNs. Going far beyond the theory found in most books, Ruixi Yuan and Tim Strayer present best practices for every aspect of VPN deployment, including tunneling, IPsec, authentication, public key infrastructure, and network/service management. Strayer and Yuan begin with a detailed overview of the fundamental concepts and architectures associated with enterprise VPNs, including site-to-site VPNs, remote access VPNs, and extranets. They compare all options for establishing VPN tunnels across the Internet, including PPTP, L2F, and L2TP. Next, they present in-depth coverage of implementing IPsec; establishing two-party or trusted third-party authentication; building a robust public key infrastructure; and managing access control. The book includes expert coverage of VPN gateway configuration, provisioning, and management; Windows and other VPN clients; and network/service management, including SLAs and network operations centers. Finally, the authors preview the future of VPNs, showing how they may be enhanced to provide greater quality of service and network intelligence. For all networking and IT professionals, security specialists, consultants, vendors, and service providers responsible for building or operating VPNs.

About this title

About the Author

Ruixi Yuan is a network researcher focusing on high-speed networking and security. He was the architect of Genuity's VPN Advantage Service and served as its product manager. In addition, he has conducted research and development in computer and communication networks at NEC, GTE Laboratories, and BBN Technologies. W. Timothy Strayer is a senior scientist at BBN Technologies where he conducts research on network protocols, routing infrastructures, computer security, and network management and monitoring systems for VPNs. Prior to BBN, he was a senior network researcher at Sandia National Laboratories. He co-authored the book, XTP: The Xpress Transfer Protocol (Addison-Wesley, 1992).

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From the Back Cover

Virtual private networks have become an essential part of today's business networks, as they provide a cost-effective means of assuring private internal and external communications over the shared Internet infrastructure. Virtual Private Networks: Technologies and Solutions is a comprehensive, practical guide to VPNs. This book presents the various technology components, concrete solutions, and best practices you need to deploy and manage a highly successful VPN.

Readers will find an overview of fundamental VPN concepts and architectures, followed by an in-depth examination of advanced features and functions such as tunneling, authentication, access control, VPN gateways, VPN clients, and VPN network and service management. Specific topics covered include:

• IPsec, featuring the Authentication Header, Encapsulating Security Payload, Internet Key
• Exchange, and implementation details
• PPTP, L2F, L2TP, and MPLS as VPN tunneling protocols
• Two-party and three-party authentication, including RADIUS and Kerberos
• Public key infrastructure (PKI) and its integration into VPN solutions
• Access control policies, mechanisms, and management, and their application to VPNs
• VPN gateway functions, including site-to-site intranet, remote access, and extranet
• Gateway configuration, provisioning, monitoring, and accounting
• Gateway interaction with firewalls and routers
• VPN client implementation issues, including interaction with operating systems
• Client operation issues, including working with NAT, DNS, and link MTU limits
• VPN management architectures and tunnel and security management
• Outsourcing and service provider environments

The book concludes with a forward look at the future of VPNs that examines such issues as security and quality of service (QoS). VPN scenarios throughout the book demonstrate how to put the described techniques and technologies to work in a real-world Virtual Private Network.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Addison Wesley
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0201702096
• ISBN 13: 9780201702095
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 336