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Internet Key Exchange for VPNs 6-17
Multiple Network IPsec
Motorola Netopia® Embedded Software Version 8.7.4 offers an enhancement to IPsec VPN tunnels allowing multiple network support. This feature enhances your Motorola Netopia® Router’s Virtual Private Networking functionality.
This feature allows you to define many local and remote network ranges for a given IPsec VPN profile. Each of these ranges has its own IPsec tunnel. However, each tunnel has a common tunneling endpoint and encryption policy. This is useful, for example, for branch office management of multiple IP subnets over an encrypted VPN tunnel. The following diagram illustrates this feature:
Advantages of Multiple Network IPsec are:
•scalability
•flexibility, by adding any combination of remote/local network ranges
•support for
•works with manual keying and Internet Key Exchange (IKE), including Xauth IKE extension (see page
•each IPsec network works under the same local/remote tunnel endpoints
•beginning with Software Version 8.7.4, you can specify more than one
•Select Add Network and press Return. The Add Network Configuration screen appears.