Extreme Networks Altitude 3500 Series, Product Reference Manual

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When connecting to another site using a VPN, the traffic is encrypted so if anyone intercepts the traffic,
they cannot see what it is unless they can break the encryption. The traffic is encrypted from your
computer through the network to the VPN. At that point the traffic is decrypted.
Use the VPN screen to add and remove VPN tunnels. To configure an existing VPN tunnel, select it
from the list in the VPN Tunnels field. The selected tunnel’s configuration displays in a VPN Tunnel
Config field.
To configure a VPN tunnel on the Altitude 35xx:
1 Select Network Configuration > WAN > VPN from the Altitude 35xx menu tree.
2 Use the VPN Tunnels field to add or delete a tunnel to the list of available tunnels, list tunnel
network address information and display key exchange information for each tunnel.
Add Click Add to add a VPN tunnel to the list. To configure a
specific tunnel, select it from the list and use the
parameters within the
VPN Tunnel Config field to set its
properties.
Del Click Del to delete a highlighted VPN tunnel. There is no
confirmation before deleting the tunnel.
Tunnel Name The Tunnel Name column lists the name of each VPN
tunnel on the Altitude 35xx.
Remote Subnet The Remote Subnet column lists the remote subnet for
each tunnel. The remote subnet is the subnet the remote
network uses for connection.