The SSL Network Tunneling service, formerly known as "The Network connector", is the classic remote connectivity technology that has been part of the UAG family for many years. It is based on the SSL Application Tunneling component technology we have discussed before, but extends it for full network connectivity that acts similarly to how other VPN technologies work. Once the user connects to the UAG portal and launches the Network Connector application, a virtual Network Card is created on the user's system, and that card is assigned an IP Address and a subnet mask. Depending on the server's configuration, it might also be assigned a Default Gateway , a DNS Server , a WINS Server , and various ROUTES are created as well.
Using this virtual NIC and the newly configured routes, the operating system is the one that actually routes traffic into the tunnel listener and the SSL Application Tunneling component then encrypts the traffic and sends it to the...