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Site-to-Site VPNs

A Site-to-Site VPN consists of two or more Site-to-Site VPN Gateways that can communicate with each other in a bi-directional relationship. The connected networks function as a single network. You can use this type of VPN to mesh office branches into one corporate network.

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Site-to-Site VPN

To create a Site-to-Site VPN with two VPN sites

  1. On the first VPN site’s UTM-1 appliance, do the following:
    1. Define the second VPN site as a Site-to-Site VPN Gateway, using the procedure Adding and Editing VPN Sites .
    2. Enable a Remote Access VPN Server using the procedure Setting Up Your UTM-1 Appliance as a VPN Server.
  2. On the second VPN site’s UTM-1 appliance, do the following:
    1. Define the first VPN site as a Site-to-Site VPN Gateway, using the procedure Adding and Editing VPN Sites .
    2. Enable a Remote Access VPN Server using the procedure Setting Up Your UTM-1 Appliance as a VPN Server.

Note: You can manually configure each VPN site's internal encryption domain via the CLI. For information, refer to the Embedded NGX CLI Reference Guide.

See Also

Remote Access VPNs

Internal VPN Server