Hi @lagapidis
I’m a bit confused when it comes to the VPN I use such as ExpressVPN or any other similar type of application and the site-to-site and client-to-site VPN’s.
My understanding is that with something like ExpressVPN, my computer makes a connection to the ExpressVPN server and my public IP address is converted to theirs. Now is the process like this?:
if I go to google.com, the request will be sent from my computer, through my modem in a tunnel to the ExpressVPN server and the request for google.com will go from their server to google and back to ExpressVPN server and back to me. So, I’m assuming there is no tunnel between the server and google, but there is a tunnel between my computer and the VPN server. I’m not 100% on this. If I look at the “client-to-site VPN” diagram, would I be the client and ExpressVPN (or any other personal VPN) be considered the site?
I also noticed that the Cisco AnyConnect on my work computer does NOT change my public IP address, but gives me access to my companies files. So this I understand would be considered as a client-to-site VPN.
And if I understand correctly, a site-to-site VPN would be if I’m in a branch office connecting to files in my main office through something like Cisco AnyConnect.
My main interest involves the typical VPN applications that a regular user can purchase and where the tunneling processes involve in that.
Thank you!
Grant