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Last modified: August 10, 2006, at 03:04 PM

The Internet as a big subnet

A telecommuter might have:

     Sunset==========West------------------East ================= firewall --- the Internet
         home network      untrusted net        corporate network

This can be described as a special case of the general subnet-to-subnet connection. The subnet on the right is 0.0.0.0/0, the whole Internet.

West (the home gateway) can have its firewall rules set up so that only IPsec packets to East are allowed out. It will then behave as if its only connection to the world was a wire to East.

When machines on the home network need to reach the Internet, they do so via the tunnel, East and the corporate firewall. From the viewpoint of the Internet (perhaps of some EvilDoer trying to break in!), those home office machines are behind the firewall and protected by it.

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