NETGEAR SRX5308 - ProSafe® Quad WAN Gigabit SSL VPN Firewall

ProSafe Gigabit Quad WAN SSL VPN Firewall SRX5308 Reference Manual
5-56 Virtual Private Networking Using IPsec Connections
v1.0, April 2010
Configuring Keepalives
The keepalive feature maintains the IPsec SA by sending periodic ping requests to a host across
the tunnel and monitoring the replies. To configure the keepalive feature on a configured VPN
policy:
1. Select VPN > IPSec VPN from the menu. The IPsec VPN submenu tabs display, with the IKE
Policies screen in view (see Figure 5-20 on page 5-22).
2. Click the VPN Policies submenu tab. The VPN Policies screen displays (see Figure 5-22 on
page 5-30).
3. In the List of VPN Policies table, click the Edit table button to the right of the VPN policy that
you want to edit. The Edit VPN Policy screen displays. (Figure 5-31 shows only the top part of
the screen with the General section).
4. Enter the settings as explained in Table 5-20 on page 5-57.
Figure 5-31