Clicking Preferences... will bring up the Barracuda NG VPN Control dialog wherein the necessary configurations can be made:

Fig. 10–10NG VPN client – Connect dialog

The space on the right side of this screen is reserved for a list of VPN profiles. It will be empty on the first start. You may now create a new VPN profile by clicking New... which will bring up another window for configuring the profile.

Insert a name for the connection entry into the Description field at the top. In the Certificate list, select and configure an authentication method, then insert the address of the remote server into the Remote Server field. Save the connection entries.

Configure a VPN profile for every known VPN server you might want to access. This way you can use the client’s Direct Access functionality, enabling you to keep your VPN connection automatically up in the background via different VPN gateways. See Direct Access, page 140.

The newly created profile can now be chosen as preconfigured profile from the VPN client dialog. Instead of creating a new profile, the default profile can of course be edited.

Advanced configuration options found in die Advanced Settings tab are described in-depth in Barracuda

Networks Control / Preferences Dialog, page 137.

It is possible to create multiple profiles for several users with individual certificates.

In the following, several configuration fields will be encountered, which are to be edited by clicking into the either empty or already pre-filled field. One of three possible editing options will then be offered:

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