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Installing the Appliance between the Network and an SSL VPN Appliance

Regardless of your deployment method (single- or dual-homed), the appliance should be placed between the X0/LAN interface of the SSL VPN appliance and the connection to your internal network. This allows the device to connect out to SonicWall’s licensing and signature update servers, and to scan the decrypted traffic from external clients requesting access to internal network resources.

If your SSL VPN appliance is in two-port mode behind a third-party firewall, it is dual-homed.

To connect a dual-homed SSL VPN appliance

  1. Cable the X0/LAN port on the appliance to the X0/LAN port on the SSL VPN appliance.
  2. Cable the X1/WAN port on the appliance to the port where the SSL VPN was previously connected.
  3. Power on the appliance.

If your SSL VPN appliance is in one-port mode in the DMZ of a third-party firewall, it is single-homed.

To connect a single-homed SSL VPN appliance

  1. Cable the X0/LAN port on the appliance to the X0/LAN port of the SSL VPN appliance.
  2. Cable the X1/WAN port on the appliance to the port where the SSL VPN was previously connected.
  3. Power on the appliance.