Lab #7 Assessment Questions

1. The Routing and Remote Access Services are need in Windows Server 2008 to provide remote access to clients. This service is important in a corporate environment because there is the potential to have several hundred or thousands of clients to manage and the IT personnel to support that many computer is limited and unable to provide hands on service to every client.

2. The IP host range for the remote VPN client pool is 172.30.0.250 through 172.30.0.252.

3. There are two encryption setting available from the remote access server, Microsoft Encrypted Authentication version 2 (MS-CHAPv2) and Microsoft Encrypted Authentication (MS-CHAP). MS-CHAPv2 is more secure and the best option to use but MS-CHAP does offer backwards compatibility.

4. During a Remote access session the client is only asked to provide it’s credentials once. This is an example of milt-factor authentication because the knowledge factor and the inherence factor used in the authentication of the user.

5. Strong encryption is important for both authentication and communication protocols because this is the connection used to communicate with the remote server. The weaker the authentication and communication protocol is then you are making it easier for unwanted user to gain access to your network.

6. MS Windows Server 2008 authentication protocols are EAP, MS-CHAPv2, MS-CHAP, and PAP. EAP is the strongest security by providing the most flexibility in authentication variations.

7. The other type of connection supported by MS Remote Access Services in Server 2008 is dial-up networking.

8. The IP address assigned after connecting tot he VPN server was 172.30.0.251. In Network Connections you can view the properties of the various connections that are system has. From this properties window you are able to view the details about IP addresses.

9. To verify the IPSec VPN tunnel is encrypting you IP data payload you can view the station of the network connection and view details about what protocols, encryption and other information about the VPN connection.