Compatible Systems 5.4 manual Manual Key Management Dialog Box, Enable Authentication

102 Chapter 6 - VPN Ports and LAN-to-LAN Tunnels

Manual Key Management

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Manual Key Management Dialog Box

Once you have created a VPN port, you may access the Manual Key Manage- ment Dialog Box by clicking on the port’s icon and selecting Manual Key Management.

This dialog box sets encryption parameters for non-IKE tunnels.

Enable Authentication

This checkbox controls whether all tunnel traffic will be authenticated.

•If checked, then each packet will be digitally signed before sending. The receiving end of the tunnel will check the signature before allowing the traffic onto its local network.

Authentication Method

If Authentication has been enabled, MD5 will appear here and packet-by-packet authentication will be done using the Authentication Secret set below.

Authentication Secret

This secret is used to generate session keys which are used to authenticate each packet received from or sent through the tunnel. The secret can be from 1 to 255 characters in length.