Well, VPN tunneling and VPN support mostly likely means that the device will pass protocols such as IPSEC and PPTP without any problems. This does not necessarily mean the device will provide you with a VPN connection to your network, it just means you have a VPN client that you use to say connect to corporate/private network, that client should work with said device.
Linksys generally labels the device as a "VPN Router" if it is capable of providing VPN services as apposed to just passing existing ones through. As for DMZ well yes, the term refers to De-Militarized-Zone, which is generally a configuration where your firewall has three or more networks, one being private, one being public, and the other (the dmz) a network where you put servers that need to be publicly accessed but you dont want them completely open to the world. However DMZ can be a little misleading with home/dsl/cable router/firewall devices, as some of them do not offer any configuration of the DMZ, its either all or nothing. In which case putting a server in this type of DMZ means that it is publicly accessable to the world on all ports via the external ip address of the router. Also you dont really have three networks, it is just doing port redirection or something like it, to the machine in the DMZ. It depends on the device in the question, the last linksys router I used did not have any configuration options for DMZ, other than selecting which internal machine to make accessable. Your mileage may vary. Ken On Tue, 2002-05-07 at 09:08, Stefano Y wrote: > Hello, > > I have the Dlink and Linksys APs and Dlink DSL router. > It says: > > - VPN Tunneling and VPN support > - DMZ host > > Can some one tell me what does VPN tunneling work and > how to do I verify/test on its VPN support feature? > > Also I read on Internet, the DMZ is the system that > located between two firewalls or between a firewall > and NAT. but how really does it works, and how do I > verify this feature. > > Thanks, > > Stephano > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Health - your guide to health and wellness > http://health.yahoo.com > -- > general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> > [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless -- Ken Caruso http://ken.ipl31.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The telephone has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us," -Western Union Internal Memo -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
