Black Box Corporation
1000 Park Drive, Lawrence, PA 15055-1018
USA, Canada: www.blackbox.com,
EU, Africa, Asia, South America, Australia: www.blackbox.eu
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gateway using WAN1 through a secure VPN tunnel. Should WAN1 fail, outbound
traffic from Firetunnel 30 will automatically be redirected to WAN2. This process is
completely transparent to the remote gateway, as Firetunnel 30 will automatically
update the domain name (Firetunnel.com) with the WAN2 IP address. Configuring a
Gateway to Multiple Gateway setup with Fail Over is similar, as shown below:
Configuring Firetunnel 30 for Fail Over provides added reliability to your VPN.
2.6.3 Concentrator
The VPN Concentrator provides an easy way for branch offices to connect to
headquarter through a VPN tunnel. All branch office traffic will be redirected to the
VPN tunnel to headquarter with the exception of LAN-side traffic. This way, all
branch offices can connect to each other through headquarter via the headquarter’s
firewall management. You can also configure Firetunnel 30 to function as a VPN
Concentrator:
Please refer to appendix H for example settings.
Firetunnel.com
Before Fail Over
192.168.2.x
100.100.100.1
192.168.3.x
Firetunnel
Firetunnel
Firetunnel
200.200.200.1
Firetunnel
200.200.200.1
Firetunnel
Firetunnel.com
192.168.2.x
192.168.4.x
100.100.100.1
192.168.3.x
Firetunnel
192.168.4.x