What is the External port for on a concentrator?

[whiteford]

What is the External port for on a concentrator?

[m.sir]

I think you mean Outside or public port - external is not exact term

Basicly you have two ports on VPN concentrator - Outside, public (or External) its connected to untrusted world (typically to ISP) and Inside, private (Internal) and its connected to trusted (local) network

M.

Hope that helps rate if it does

[srue]

some concentrators have more than 2 ports for a 'dmz'. we only use 3005's so i'm not sure what kind of scenario you would have where you would need 3 ports or more.

[martindesrosiers]

I think normally they have 1 Private interface E1, 1 Public Interface E2 and 1 External interface (Like MDZ) E3.

[whiteford]

Not sure you are right, our Cisco 3015 Concentrator has 3 ports on the back, public, private and external. I am using private for the inside network and public for the outside network.

[martindesrosiers]

This is what I said :).