1) Remote nodes connect to networks via dial-up, DSL, cable or VPN and allow remote access but are slower than local connections. 2) Remote control allows users to access applications on a local network node from a remote computer by transmitting keyboard/mouse inputs rather than processing data remotely. 3) Configuring remote connections involves clients establishing tunnels via PPTP or L2TP to a remote access server providing VPN services to securely access the local network over the Internet.

1. Unit07:
Networking with Remote
Clients and Servers

2. Overview
• Remote Node
• Remote Control
• Configuring a Connection

3. Remote Node
• Remote nodes were computers that connected to a
network via a dialup line
• Nodes connect via ISDN, DSL, cable modem, and
Virtual Private Networking (VPN) across the Internet
• Remote node computing is notoriously slow, primarily
because dialup
• the remote node is not much different from a local node
on the network

4. Remote Node

5. Remote Node

6. Advantages of Remote Node
Computing
• ease of configuration
• it can be run across any dialup line, cable, DSL and so
on
• wide variety of operating systems natively support
remote access
• there are no graphics restrictions

7. Disadvantages of Remote Node
Computing
• Issue of slow speed
• Driven by the need to use certain
applications
• Problem for network administrators arises
—licensing
• Support issues can be horrendous

8. Point-to-Point Connection with PPP
• PPP is based on an earlier protocol
• Serial Line Internet Protocol (SLIP )
• SLIP worked only on TCP/IP networks

9. Using DSL for Remote Node
• Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) is growing
as a dialup technology for remote node
• DSL uses the same lines as regular
telephone calls
– ADSL
– G.Lite
– HDSL
– VDSL

10. Remote Access Service (RAS)
• When you dial into a network as a remote node, you log
into a remote access server
• A variety of remote access servers is available
• RAS server placement is key to performance

11. RAS

12. Tunneling to a Virtual Private
Network
• Virtual Private Networking (VPN) describes remote nodes that
access a network via the Internet in a secure fashion
• Many encryption schemes can encode data with strengths up to 128
bits
• VPN is available to clients who connect to the Internet through
nearly any type of link
• VPN creates a virtual point-to-point connection to the RAS
• Tunneling is driven by the need to protect that virtual point-to-point
link from being interrupted or eavesdropped upon

13. VPN

14. Tunneling Protocol
• Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol
– Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP) takes its
name from PPP because it uses PPP
– PPTP encapsulates PPP frames within IP datagram
• Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol
– The Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol (L2TP) was
developed to establish a viable alternative to PPTP
– Like PPTP, L2TP is an extension of PPP that
supports multiple protocols
– L2TP clients follow a similar process to PPTP

15. Remote Control
• On the remote computer, a window would appear with
the remote computer’s desktop within it
• All application processing and data remained on the LAN
• the only data that traveled to the LAN from the remote
computer were keyboard and mouse clicks
• Remote control computing overcame some of the issues
with remote node computing
• the remote computer didn’t need to be compatible with
the network applications
• little data had to traverse the connection between the
remote computer and the local node
• no issues with licensing because the application ran on
the local node

16. Remote Control

17. Remote Control-Thin client

18. Independent Computing
Architecture from Citrix
• Citrix developed its ICA protocol to facilitate remote control
sessions
• The protocol runs within the upper layers of the OSI
reference model, including the application, presentation,
and session layers
• During the session, ICA carries keystrokes, mouse clicks,
and graphical data in the form of compressed draw
commands
• ICA is supported by the latest Web browsers
• ICA client can dial directly into a Citrix MetaFrame server
and run a pure ICA session across the direct connection

19. Microsoft Remote Desktop Protocol
• Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) offers much the same
type of service as ICA
• original protocol used by Windows NT 4.0 Terminal
Services Edition
• RDP clients will operate only across a TCP/IP network
• RDP is also the protocol used in Windows XP’s two
native remote applications
– Remote Desktop Connection application, which
provides a single remote control session to a
Windows XP computer.
– Remote Assistance application

20. Configuring a Connection
• A typical VPN deployment begins with a remote client
that needs to access the local network that is already
connected to the Internet
• the client must make a second call across the Internet
over the existing PPP connection
• The call connects to a RAS providing PPTP or L2TP
services and creates a tunnel

21. Server-Side Configuration
• Ras
• Windows 2000 Servers Are Equipped With Routing And
Remote Access Service (Rras )
• Windows 2000 Rras Is Able To Authenticate Directly To
The Active Directory Service
• Distribute Dialup Rras Servers Throughout The Network
To Reduce Dialup Telephone Costs

22. VPN