This project intends to clarify the encapsulation process and the tunnelling protocol technologies used in VPN by illustrating the different concepts using Macromedia Flash.
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CONTENTS ABSTRACT i ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ii 1. INTRODUCTION 3 1.1 PROJECT MOTIVATION 3 1.2 AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 3 1.3 REPORT STRUCTURE 4 2. BACKGROUND 6 2.1 RESEARCH 6 3. COMPUTER NETWORKING 7 3.1 COMPUTER NETWORKING IN GENERAL 7 3.2 ENCAPSULATION 7 3.2.1 ENCAPSULATION ACROSS INTERNET 8 3.3 IP DATAGRAM 10 3.3.1 IP DATAGRAM FORMAT 10 3.4 INTERNET PROTOCOL VERSION 6 (IPV6) 12 4.1 COMMON VPN SITUATIONS 13 4.2 VPN ENCAPSULATION 15 4.3 SECURITY IN VPN 15 5. TUNNELLING TECHNOLOGY 17 5.1 TUNNELLING 17 5.2 TWO CATEGORIES OF TUNNELS 18 5.3 THE TUNNELLING PROTOCOLS BEHIND INTERNET VPNS 18 5.3 HOW TUNNELLING WORKS 19 5.4 TUNNEL TYPES 19 6. INTERNET PROTOCOL SECURITY (IPSEC) 20 6.1 AUTHENTICATION HEADER AND ENCAPSULATED SECURITY PAYLOAD 20 6.2 TWO MODES OF IPSEC 22 6.3 SECURITY ASSOCIATION 22 6.4 AUTHENTICATION HEADER (AH) IN TRANSPORT MODE 22 6.5 ENCAPSULATING SECURITY PAYLOAD (ESP) IN TRANSPORT MODE 24 6.6 AH AND ESP IN TUNNEL MODE 25 7. POINT-TO-POINT TUNNELLING PROTOCOL (PPTP) 27 7.1 PPP AND PPTP 27 7.2 ESTABLISH PPTP TUNNEL 28 8. LAYER 2 TUNNELLING PROTOCOL (L2TP) 29 8.1 PPTP COMPARED TO L2TP 29 8.2 ESTABLISH L2TP TUNNEL 30 8.3 L2TP USING IPSEC 32 9. SOFTWARE APPLICATION TOOLS TOWARDS THE PROJECT 34 9.1 MACROMEDIA FLASH OR DIRECTOR 34 9.2 PROGRAMMING IN FLASH AND DIRECTOR 34 9.3 LEARNING AND APPLYING MACROMEDIA FLASH 35 9.3.1 RENDERING IMAGES WITHIN FLASH 35 9.4 MICROSOFT WORD 36 10. THE RESULT OF THE RESEARCH 37 10.1 MACROMEDIA FLASH ILLUSTRATION 37 10.2 TESTING 38 10.2 TESTING 39 10.3 PRODUCT EVALUATION 39 11. CONCLUSION AND EVALUATION 40 11.1 CONCLUSION 40 11.2 EVALUATION OF OBJECTIVES 41 11.3 PROJECT MANAGEMENT 41 11.4 PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT 41 11.5 FUTURE DEVELOPMENT 41 BIBLIOGRAPHY 42 BOOKS 42 INTERNET 44 APPENDIX A - DEFINITION OF TERMS 47 APPENDIX B - TOPIC DESCRIPTION 51 APPENDIX C - FINAL TESTING 64 APPENDIX D - PRODUCT EVALUATION 67 APPENDIX E - CODING 71 Abstract The Internet has forever changed the way that we do business. An...

