> Mark Smith wrote:
> Does IPsec VPN tunnels / logical links influence any of
> the current site-local discussions ?

As you mentioned in your post, the VPN tunnel keeps the network convex
as it's no different than any other link, and only one site is needed.

Any serious network that does not have redundant private links and
routers has an encrypted router-to-router tunnel for inside traffic.
Latency is not good and encryption might seriously hit the routers, but
it's better than no connection. Client VPNs to get to the other location
if the leased line goes down just makes makes me laugh.

It's not that big of a deal to configure; I have number of setups that
run EIGRP routing over IPSEC tunnels over the Internet, crossing
firewalls. Nothing exotic here.

Michel.


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