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7. Appendix C – IPSec VPN
PLANET WLS-1280 has equipped with IPSec VPN feature starts from release version v1.00. To fully utilize the
nature supported IPSec VPN by Microsoft Windows XP SP2 (with patch) and Windows 2000 operating systems,
PLANET WLS-1280 implement IPSec VPN tunneling technology between client’s windows devices and PLANET
WLS-1280 itself, no matter of through wired or wireless network.
By pushing down ActiveX to the client’s Windows device from PLANET WLS-1280, no extra client software to be
installed except ActiveX, in which a so-called “clientless” IPSec VPN setting is configured automatically. At the end
of this setup, a build-in IPSec VPN feature was enabled to be ready to serve once it is called to be setup.
The design goal is to eliminate the configuration difficulty from IPSec VPN users. At the client side, the IPSec VPN
implementation of PLANET WLS-1280 is based on ActiveX and the built-in IPSec VPN client of Windows OS.
1. ActiveX component
The ActiveX is a software component running inside Internet Explorer. The ActiveX component can be checked
by the following windows.
From Windows Internet Explorer, click “Manage add-ons” button inside “Programs” page under “Tools” to show
the add-ons programs list. You can see VPNClient.ipsec was enabled.