
Getting Started with IPsec
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Figure 2-2. IPsec Security Gateways
When you add IPsec services to a security gateway, its internal hosts and
subnetworks can communicate with the external hosts that directly operate IPsec
services, or with a remote security gateway that provides IPsec services for its set
of hosts and subnetworks.
Security Policies
There are two types of IPsec policies: inbound and outbound. An inbound policy
is used for data packets arriving at a security gateway, and an outbound policy is
used for data packets leaving a security gateway. Each IPsec interface can support
up to 127 inbound and 127 outbound security policies (refer to Figure 2-3
).
Policy Templates
Every IPsec policy is based on a policy template. A policy template is a predefined
policy definition that you can use on any IP interface. The template specifies one
or more criteria and an action (or none) to apply to incoming or outgoing data
packets.
A policy template and every policy based on it must include at least one criterion,
for example, an IP source address. A policy template may include one or no
action. For example, an outbound policy might specify a protect action. The
criterion specification determines whether a data packet matches a particular
security policy, and the action specifies how the policy is applied to the packet.
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