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IT Interview Questions:What are Conditions and Profile in RRAS Policies? What is remote access policy? What is its usage?
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IT Interview Questions:What are Conditions and Profile in RRAS Policies?
What is remote access policy? What is its usage?
Remote access policies are an ordered set of rules that define whether remote access connection attempts are either authorized or rejected. Each rule includes one or more conditions (which identifies the criteria), a set of profile settings (to be applied on the connection attempt), and a permission setting (grant or deny) for remote access.
This can be compared like a brain of the door-keeper (VPN server) which allows entry to your network from outside . Remote access policy decides who can access what resources from where using what tunnel settings.
So configuring proper set of policies are important.
What are some common examples?
You may want to have different policies based upon one or more factors in different conditions
: 1) Who is accessing the network(Windows-Groups)
2) What tunnel type is getting used (Tunnel-Type)
3) What authentication type is getting used
4) What is the client's IP address (useful for site-to-site scenarios where the IP address of calling router remains same)
5) What time of day client is accessing (like you may want to block access at particular times)
6) etc
You may want to enforce following profile on a given policy
1) Idle time after which the connection should be disconnected
2) Session time after which the connection should be disconnected
3) Inbound/Outbound filters that can be applied per PPP connection (or per user connection) - to restrict access of a given client/site to a given network (IP address, port number)
4) Encryption Type
5) Authentication Algorith Type
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