Compatible Systems 5.4 manual VPN Group Configuration General Tab

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>Current VPN Group

This edit box allows a VPN group configuration to be selected. Any changes made in the tab windows will be stored to the selected group configuration.

>New

Clicking on this button will bring up a dialog box which allows the creation of a new group configuration.

Rename

Clicking on this button will bring up a dialog box to allow the currently selected VPN group configuration to be renamed.

Delete

Clicking on this button will delete the presently selected group configuration.

VPN Group Configuration General Tab

>Bind To

This pulldown allows the selection of an interface on the device. The interface selected will act as the local end point for the tunnels defined by this config- uration.

ϖ Note: Some VPN devices may only have one interface available for this function. In this case, the pull-down will not have any other choices available.

Max Connections

This is the maximum number of simultaneous client connections using this configuration which will be allowed by the device.

This setting can be used to limit the number of connections for certain classes of users by assigning users to different group configurations. This number may not exceed the maximum number of tunnel connections supported by the device. If the sum of the Max Connections for all VPN Group sections exceeds the maximum number of tunnel connections supported by the device, tunnel connections will be served on a first-come, first-served basis.

Keep Alive Interval

This is the number of seconds between keep-alive packets sent to each connected client by the device.

Clients which do not answer these packets and/or generate other traffic within several keep-alive intervals will have their connections shut down.

Keep-alive packets are only sent in the case where no other traffic has been received from the client in the specified number of seconds.