A Day In The Life Of A Packet - Bay Networks Baystream 7 Configuration And Troubleshooting Manual

A Day in the Life of a Packet

The next sections explain how a packet moves through a Dial VPN network and
returns to the remote node.
As the packet moves from the remote node to the home network, different pieces
of the Dial VPN network must encapsulate (add) and decapsulate (strip off) the
protocol-specific envelope around the data packet.
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Figure 2-4
BayStream Multiservice Software Version 7.2
Dial VPN Network Concepts
shows the process.
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