Compact Flash Card - HP ProCurve 7000dl Series Basic Management And Configuration Manual

Overview
Hardware Overview
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Slot for the IPSec VPN module
Figure 1-20. IPSec VPN Module
To protect your network from security breaches through the Internet, the
ProCurve Secure Router establishes secure VPN tunnels using the industry-
standard IP Security (IPSec) protocol. The IPSec VPN module enables the
software that supports the IPSec protocols and relieves the CPU of the
overhead associated with processing the encryption algorithms.
When the IPSec VPN module is installed, the ProCurve Secure Router 7102dl
supports up to 500 VPN tunnels; the ProCurve Secure Router 7203dl supports
up to 1,000 tunnels.
If your company operates on a smaller scale, you can install the IPSec Base
Module instead. The IPSec Base Module enables either the ProCurve Secure
Router 7102dl or 7203dl to support up to 10 VPN tunnels. Like the IPSec VPN
Module, the IPSec Base Module is installed in the slot on the rear panel of the
ProCurve Secure Router.
If VPN client connectivity is required, ProCurve Networking offers the
ProCurve VPN Client. Your company can also use any pure IPSec client to
allow users to establish a VPN with the router. However, VPN clients based
on proprietary implementations will not work with the IPSec VPN Modules.

Compact Flash Card

The compact flash slot on the ProCurve Secure Router's back panel supports
most standard compact flash cards. (See Figure 1-21.) To protect your
ProCurve Secure Router against system failure, you can store the Secure
Router OS software and your configuration file on a compact flash card. In
fact, the ProCurve Secure Router provides additional features that automati-
cally use compact flash to safeguard the Secure Router OS and your configu-
rations. These features are described in "Bootup Process" on page 1-30 and
"AutoSynch™ Technology" on page 1-34.