Chapter 12: Advanced Networking Devices Flashcards
Dedicated Server
A computer that only acts as a server, never a client.
Peer-to-Peer network
Any system can act as a server, a client, or both, depending on how you configure them.
Peer-to-Peer Applications (P2P)
Act as both client and server (uTorrent and shit)
Virtual Private Network (VPN)
- A network configuration that enables a remote user to access a private network via the Internet.
- Use tunneling
Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP)
- An advanced version of PPP that handles VPNs.
- Used on Windows.
Routing and Remote Access Service (RRAS)
A special remote access server program on which a PPTP endpoint is placed in Microsoft networks.
Web browser performance on a VPN
Hella fucking slower
Host-to-Site
Type of VPN connection where a host logs into a remote network as if it were any other local resource of that network.
Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol (L2TP)
A VPN protocol that uses IPsec
VPN Concentrator
The new endpoint of the local LAN in L2TP
Host-to-Host
Type of VPN connection in which a single host establishes a link with a remote, single host.
Site-to-Site
A type of VPN connection using two Cisco VPN concentrators to connect two separate LANs permanently.
SSL VPN
A type of VPN in which clients connect to the VPN server through a web browser, with the traffic secured by SSL
Portal SSL VPN
A client accesses the VPN and is presented with a secure web page. (Like myucsc and shit)
Tunnel SSL VPN
The client web browser runs some kind of active control, such as Java or Flash, and gains much greater access to the network.
Managed Switch
Switches that have extra programming and logic to handle switching, security, and many other functions