Cisco Systems 2.5 Site-to-Site VPN

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Cisco Router and Security Device Manager 2.5 User’s Guide
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Site-to-Site VPN
The help topics in this section describe the Site-to-Site VPN configuration
screens, and the VPN Design Guide screens.
VPN Design Guide
If you are an administrator setting up a VPN network, the VPN Design Guide
helps you to determine which kind of VPN to configure. You provide information
about what type of user you are, the type of equipment that the router establishes
VPN connections with, the type of traffic that the VPN will carry, and other
features that you need to configure. After you provide this information, the VPN
Design Guide recommends a VPN type, and allows you to launch the wizard that
will enable you to configure that type of VPN.
Create Site to Site VPN
A Virtual Private Network (VPN) lets you protect traffic that travels over lines that
your organization may not own or control. VPNs can encrypt traffic sent over
these lines and authenticate peers before any traffic is sent.
You can let Cisco Router and Security Device Manager (Cisco SDM) guide you
through a simple VPN configuration by clicking the VPN icon. When you use the
Wizard in the Create Site-to-Site VPN tab, Cisco SDM provides default values for
some configuration parameters in order to simplify the configuration proc ess.