Raymond,
In some cases(and I'm sure there are more), you may
need to have secure communications from one part of
your network to another, which may require the traffic
to be unreadable. For example, you may have financials,
payroll or even trade secrets that flow through a company.
You may even have extranets, which traverse and terminate
somewhere within your network(s).
This allows for a secure tunnel to be in place, so you
wouldn't have to go through the extra steps of encrypting
manually, before sending the data and decrypting when/after
it arrives. You accomplish the same thing, but with it's more
automated.
Like I said, there's probably other reason or definitions, but
this should give you an idea.
Robert
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Robert P. MacDonald, Network Engineer
e-Business Infrastructure
G o r d o n F o o d S e r v i c e
Voice: +1.616.261.7987 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>> Raymond Cheung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 8/23/00 10:23:31 PM >>>
>
>Dear Sirs,
>
>Recently, I have heard a term Internal VPN. Does
>anyone know what it is ?
>
>Why VPN is required internally ?
>
>Please direct me to the site which has this info.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Raymond Cheung
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