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CHAPTER
9
Scenario: IPsec Remote-Access VPN
Configuration
This chapter describes how to use the adaptive security appliance to accept
remote-access IPsec VPN connections. A remote-access VPN allows you to
create secure connections, or tunnels, across the Internet, which provides secure
access to off-site users. In this type of VPN configuration, remote users must be
running the Cisco VPN client to connect to the adaptive security appliance.
If you are implementing an Easy VPN solution, this chapter describes how to
configure the Easy VPN server (sometimes called a headend device).
This chapter includes the following sections:
• Example IPsec Remote-Access VPN Network Topology, page 9-1
• Implementing the IPsec Remote-Access VPN Scenario, page 9-2
• What to Do Next, page 9-17
Example IPsec Remote-Access VPN Network
Topology
Figure 9-1 shows an adaptive security appliance configured to accept requests
from and establish IPsec connections with VPN clients, such as a Cisco Easy VPN
software or hardware clients, over the Internet.