Archive for the ‘VPN’ Category

64-bit Windows 7, Cisco VPN client and XP mode – Part 5

July 22nd, 2009 by Vladimir Stajic


How does it work in practice? I would say that for the people who understand what was happening up until this point, the operation of this blended environment will not be a problem. Normal user can end up being confused and frustrated, though.

SP Services and Solutions bootcamp

June 30th, 2009 by Ivan Pepelnjak


Are you fluent in the MPLS VPN, VPLS, EoMPLS, IPTV, VoIP, IPv6 and Data Center and mobility technologies? Unless you’ve passed your CCIE SP lab exam last week, the answer is probably no. But even more important, do you know how to use them in your Service Provider network to ...

64-bit Windows 7, Cisco VPN client and XP mode – Part 4

June 24th, 2009 by Vladimir Stajic


How do I now use the virtual applications? Simple :). I just go to the Start menu of Windows 7 and there's a subsection where the Virtual XP entry is. That subsection now has all the applications, that I have installed in Virtual XP, presented as published “virtual application”.

64-bit Windows 7, Cisco VPN client and XP mode – Part 3

June 16th, 2009 by Vladimir Stajic


First you need to start the Virtual XP, just like you would any old virtual PC.

64-bit Windows 7, Cisco VPN client and XP mode – Part 2

May 28th, 2009 by Vladimir Stajic


After the business apps such as Microsoft Office and Lotus Notes were up and running, I got to the part that I knew from the start would be tricky: the Cisco VPN client.

64-bit Windows 7, Cisco VPN client and XP mode – Part 1

May 20th, 2009 by Vladimir Stajic


I was a bit adventurous the other day. After a successful initial testing of the Windows 7 Release Candidate on a home PC, I decided that I would like to see how it would function in a business environment. After getting a blessing from the IT department and backing up all ...

Designing Site-to-Site IPsec VPNs – Part 5

April 1st, 2009 by Marjan Bradesko


Do you need an on-demand fully-meshed (any-to-any) topology using IPsec in your network? And you want simplicity in configuration? Among various implementations of the IPsec the Cisco`s Group Encrypted Transport VPN (GET VPN) is the solution in this case. Boštjan Šuštar, an internetworking expert at NIL Data Communications, in his ...

Add a VPN to an Enterprise Network with Multi-VRF Functionality

March 2nd, 2009 by Marjan Bradesko


Are you in charge of connectivity for numerous small sites spread throughout a geographic area? And you need to provide a transport for the traffic generated by the video surveillance on the remote sites? The security policy dictates that IP traffic from the video cameras is separated from the other ...

Doing It Right in PKI-Enabled Cisco VPNs: Choosing and Protecting Keys

February 25th, 2009 by Jan Bervar


So you'd like to implement a Cisco IPsec VPN using RSA keys and certificates in a PKI to authenticate peers? I'm guessing that your reasons for this are (some of) the following: You understand that partially or fully meshed VPNs require a scalable peer-authentication method. You choose not to use pre-shared keys ...

As good as it GETs?

February 17th, 2009 by Jan Bervar


By now, you probably have heard about the latest Cisco site-to-site VPN technology, Group Encrypted Transport VPN (GET VPN). GET VPN promises to solve most of the scalability and manageability issues of partially or fully meshed IPsec VPNs. However, before you jump into the fire, it's important to understand that ...