You are correct. The VPN does not traverse the Internet. The goal is
to allow secure communication and controlled access in a wireless
connection to the internal network. The VPN prevents sniffing of
packets to capture data and connection to the access point by
unauthorized people, like the guy in his car parked outside.
Alan
Dazed_75 wrote:
> I am no expert Alan, but it seems to me nothing in the VPN sections of
> your diagram traverses the internet or is outside the firewall between
> your LAN and the internet. IOW, it seems to me that it is all within
> your local network(s). What am I missing? Or are you simply wanting to
> secure the wireless communications within your LAn(s)?
>
> Or are you trying to VPn from a wireless client within your LAN to some
> box out on the internet? In that case, isn't the VPN service out on the
> network that hosts that remote box? My understanding of the VPN support
> in the router (Linksys or openWRT) is to permit a VPN connection from
> out on the internet to reach on of the machines on your LAN and behind
> the router. Or am I completely missing this?
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