HowtoForge: Racoon Roadwarrior Configuration | Linux Today

HowtoForge: Racoon Roadwarrior Configuration

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Nov 21, 2006

“Roadwarrior is a client that uses unknown, dynamically assigned
IP addresses to connect to a VPN gateway (in this case also
firewall). This situation is shown on picture 1.1 and is one of the
most interesting and today most needed scenarios in business
environment. Here are some of the reasons why that is so:

  • “Client can be any computer (with any IP address assigned) that
    has Internet access and can initiate connection to VPN
    gateway…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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