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Virtual Private Network (VPN)

A Virtual Private Network (VPN) is a

• controlled segmentation of communications for communities of interest across a shared infrastructure;
• communications environment in which access is controlled to permit peer connections only within a defined community of interest, and is constructed through some form of partitioning of a common underlying communications medium, where this underlying communications medium provides services to the network on a non-exclusive basis; and
• private network constructed within a public network infrastructure, such as the global Internet

Installation Instructions

• Windows 2000/XP
• Mac OSX
• Windows Vista / 7 (32 and 64 bit)
• Linux

Profile

• Swinburne.pcf
  This profile is no longer required for the Windows and Macintosh installations as these platforms are now pre-configured
• SWINNET Shared Secret Information