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Establishing a secure gateway for remote personnel to access company resources over the Internet can be a risky undertaking. First you have to find the right virtual private network (VPN) software and, you have to make sure it's configured correctly. Make one wrong move, and you compromise your entire network and company data.
NetMAX VPN Server is a complete drop-in solution to an enterprise's VPN needs. Built on a release of Red Hat Linux, VPN Server is fully IPSec-compliant, offering 168-bit DES encryption with SHA-I HMAC 160-bit and MD5 HMAC 128-bit authentication.
The program lets you interconnect two separate LANs over the Internet (called a VPN gateway), and also lets one or more individual computers (such as remote workers) access configured network resources. VPN Server is very efficient, offering as much as 18Mbps 3DES encryption throughput on a 550MHz Pentium III PC.
In addition to its VPN features, VPN Server includes a full set of firewall programs and utilities. Effectively, VPN Server incorporates VPN capabilities into NetMAX FireWall ProSuite, with DNS and DHCP server, NAT, IP chains firewalling, and IP address mapping and port forwarding.
These features let you use NetMAX VPN Server as an Internet gateway for users on an internal network, while providing VPN connectivity for outside users.
The VPN Server can be connected to the Internet via a cable modem on one interface, and provided connectivity to a Windows-based network on the internal interface. The software is a complete suite of applications, not just a collection of utilities that install on top of an existing Linux system.
If you intend to install the software on a machine with an existing Linux OS, you will need to perform a full backup, because the NetMAX installation will reformat the hard disk drive.
NetMAX VPN Server requirements and specs:
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