Abstract / Excerpt:

The trend of businesses nowadays is cost cutting. The less cost a project would entail, the better for an organization. To keep up with this, there must be a solution to getting cheaper access to an organization's data without sacrificing security, reliability, and efficiency of the system.

Networking provides communication among users along great distance. For two well-known networking scheme, Local Area Networks (LAN) and Wide Area Network (WAN), the distance of both depend on the invested physical connection made. That is why Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) were created making use of secured tunnels using the Internet, or any other public connection. Client would then be able to access their organization's system from locations hundreds of miles away from the main server by using a dial-up connection.

This study will focus on the implementation of a VPN in a Linux system. A VPN prototype will be created to demonstrate the working model. This is done by first researching on the current studies done to attain Virtual Private Networks. This includes the methods of packet travel, security measures implemented and different methods of implementation done. After gathering the data on VPNs the proponents then have to decided on an implementation that will be used as a model for the prototype to be created. Last but not the least is the implementation stage which is the coding and debugging stage of the prototype to ensure it is functioning and reliable enough.

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Source Institution	Ateneo de Davao University
Unit	Computer Studies
Authors	Cristina LOurdes C. Dulatre, Lionel Harvey G. Estrera, Josarie A. Villaflores
Page Count	11
Place of Publication	Davao City
Original Publication Date	March 3, 2003
Tags	Virtual Private Network in Linux

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