CiscoPress – Cisco ASA: All-in-One Firewall, IPS, and VPN Adaptive Security Appliance
Wednesday, June 30th, 2010Cisco ASA: All-in-One Firewall, IPS, and VPN Adaptive Security Appliance is a practitioner’s guide to planning, deploying, and troubleshooting a comprehensive security plan with Cisco ASA. The book provides valuable insight and deployment examples and demonstrates how adaptive identification and mitigation services on Cisco ASA provide a sophisticated security solution for both large and small [...]
Cisco Press – Building MPLS Based Broadband Access VPNs
Tuesday, March 16th, 2010Deploy MPLS VPNs successfully in broadband networks with Building MPLS-Based Broadband Access VPNs. This book helps you understand why and how today’s broadband networks function, covering the principal access technologies: DSL, Ethernet, and cable. The book also examines the different tunneling protocols used for VPN solutions today, namely GRE, IPSec, and L2TP, with examples of [...]
Cisco Press – Troubleshooting Virtual Private Networks (VPN)
Friday, February 5th, 2010Master advanced troubleshooting techniques for IPSec, MPLS Layer-3, MPLS Layer-2 (AToM), L2TPv3, L2TPv2, PPTP, and L2F VPNs Learn the step-by-step, end-to-end methodology essential for troubleshooting virtual private networks (VPNs) Gain the in-depth knowledge necessary for fast and efficient troubleshooting of IPSec, MPLS Layer-3, MPLS Layer-2 (AToM), L2TPv3, L2TPv2, PPTP, and L2F VPNs Master advanced troubleshooting [...]
Free Book – The Complete Cisco VPN Configuration Guide
Saturday, July 11th, 2009A thorough and complete review of VPN technologies, as implemented in Cisco infrastructure, Deal’s The Complete Cisco VPN Configuration Guide, is arranged as a 23 chapter step-by-step technology review and one chapter of bonus case studies. The 40 page case study at the end of the book demonstrates the book’s material in a concise, simple [...]
VPN Virtual Tunnel Interfaces
Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009While doing a recent deployment, I ran across this concept. It’s a slightly different way to configure VPNs on a Cisco router that (for me) is far less confusing and finicky. If you’ve ever configured VPNs using a PIX firewall or IOS router, you probably know of the pain associated with making sure your crypto [...]