Avaya 3.7 User Manual

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Issuer Certificates
Issue 4 May 2005
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Dynamic VPNs
Dynamic VPNs are VPNs that can be readily scaled as dictated by business 
demands. As the remote client user population grows, the authentication and 
session configuration information for each new user must necessarily also 
grow. By maintaining this information not in the security gateway’s flash 
memory but on a dedicated network host device, the number of users becomes 
unlimited. Two techniques of achieving this functionality normally used are 
LDAP or RADIUS.
Dyna Policy
An Avaya VPN term relating to a dynamic configuration download of VPN 
session security parameters to the remote client computer upon connection to a 
security gateway. This technique assures maximum security in a VPN session.
E
Encapsulation
The process of placing the contents of one packet into that of payload of 
another packet.
Extranet security 
gateway
It is possible to create a Group associated with a security gateway that is not 
managed by your company’s VPNmanager. This happens when creating 
“extranets,” or VPNs between partner corporations. In an extranet, each 
corporate network uses VPN components that are managed separately by each 
company’s system administrator.
F
Firewall
A network device acting as a filter to restrict access to private network 
resources from the public. Filtering typically is based on the types of packets 
exchanged between two devices on the network.
H
Heartbeat
A special VPN packet broadcast by a primary security gateway used to facilitate 
the resilient tunnel function.
IKE (Internet Key 
Exchange)
A key-management protocol, IKE defines procedures and packet formats to 
establish, negotiate, modify and delete Security Associations (SAs) and defines 
payloads for exchanging key generation and authentication data. These 
formats provide a consistent framework for transferring key and authentication 
data which is independent of the key generation technique, encryption 
algorithm and authentication mechanism. Now combined with Oakley to form 
IKE.
IP Groups
IP Groups are a convenient means of managing your VPN resources. IP 
Groups are collections of IP network mask pairs associated with security 
gateways, hosts, and workstations located behind the security gateway.
IPSec
The network cryptographic protocols for protecting IP packets.
ISAKMP
The key-management protocol used in conjunction with IPSec.
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