NETGEAR FVS318G - Using the IPSec VPN Wizard for Client and Gateway Configurations

Virtual Private Networking Using IPSec and L2TP Connections
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NETGEAR ProSAFE VPN Firewall FVS318G v2
Use the IPSec VPN Wizard for Client and Gateway
Configurations
You can use the IPSec VPN Wizard to configure multiple gateway or client VPN tunnel
policies.
Note: Although the VPN firewall supports IPv6, the NETGEAR ProSafe
VPN Client supports IPv4 only; a future release of the VPN client
might support IPv6.
Configuring a VPN tunnel connection requires that you specify all settings on both sides of
the VPN tunnel to match or mirror each other precisely, which can be a daunting task. The
VPN Wizard efficiently guides you through the setup procedure with a series of questions that
determine the IPSec keys and VPN policies it sets up. The VPN Wizard also configures the
settings for the network connection: security association (SA), traffic selectors, authentication
algorithm, and encryption. The settings that the VPN Wizard uses are based on the
recommendations of the VPN Consortium (VPNC), an organization that promotes
multivendor VPN interoperability.
The following sections provide wizard and NETGEAR ProSafe VPN Client sof
tware
configuration procedures:
• Create an IPv4 Gateway-to-Gateway VPN Tunnel with the Wizard
• Create an IPv6 Gateway-to-Gateway VPN Tunnel with the Wizard
• Create an IPv4 Client-to-Gateway VPN Tunnel with the Wizard
Create an IPv4 Gateway-to-Gateway VPN Tunnel with the
Wizard
Figure 16. Example of VPN tunnel
To ensure that tunnels stay active, after completing the wizard, manually edit the VPN policy
to enable keep-alives, which periodically sends ping packets to the host on the peer side of
the network to keep the tunnel alive. For more information, see Configure Keep-Alives on
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ge 277.