Archive for the ‘IPsec’ Category

The Power of NIL Monitor, Part 1

December 22nd, 2008 by Grega Modrijan


As part of NIL’s customer support division, my colleagues and I face customers’ networking problems daily. Trying to solve these problems quickly and efficiently – and get the maximum benefit out of available resources (time, engineers, etc.) – requires us to stay open to new techniques and tools that might ...

Designing Site-to-Site IPsec VPNs - Part 3

December 1st, 2008 by Marjan Bradesko


Site-to-site VPNs using IPsec can be implemented with the crypto maps or, when routed interface is needed, by GRE-tunnels. Virtual Tunnel Interfaces (VTIs) are a relatively late addition to Cisco IOS and eliminates the need for additional GRE overhead, while still providing the logical interface. Boštjan Šuštar, the Internetworking Expert at ...

Designing Site-to-Site IPsec VPNs - Part 2

October 1st, 2008 by Marjan Bradesko


Crypto maps - used as one of the oldest Cisco IOS implementation options for IPsec – have a downside - they do not provide for a routable logical interface. When migrating from a traditional WAN or upgrading an existing WAN to use cryptography, it may be beneficial to reuse the ...