Analysis of the possibilities of using IPSec on a Linux system for wireless networks
Daniel Sawicki, Marcin Janczuk · Photonics Applications in Astronomy, Communications, Industry, and High-Energy Physics Experiments 2018 · 2018
The work presents the problems related to securing the wireless network. The main purpose of the work was the issue related to the possibilities of using the IPSec protocol to secure the wireless network, which were closely related to the encryption protocol. A wireless network was designed for research purposes, enabling the configuration of the IPSec protocol in the client-to-server mode. This allowed to conduct several tests in which the network was compared with the default configuration available through the wizard to the network protected by the IPSec protocol. Analysis of the results obtained was based on a comparison of the network with default settings with the VPN network. The tests checked the impact of configuration on performance, quality, time and consumption of hardware resources. All the studies carried out confirm the fact that the use of the IPSec protocol has not only a good impact on increasing the level of network security, but also significantly affects the bandwidth performance and bandwidth.