NETGEAR FVG318NA manual Verifying the Status of a VPN Tunnel

ProSafe 802.11g Wireless VPN Firewall FVG318 Reference Manual

Figure 5-30

Once the connection is established, you can open the browser of the PC and enter the LAN IP address of the remote FVG318. After a short wait, you should see the login screen of the VPN Firewall Router (unless another PC already has the FVG318 management interface open).

•Gateway-to-Gateway Configuration. Test the VPN tunnel by pinging the remote network from a PC attached to the FVG318.

a.Open a command prompt (Start -> Run -> cmd).

b.Type ping 192.168.3.1.

Figure 5-31

Note: The pings may fail the first time. If so, then try the pings a second time.

Verifying the Status of a VPN Tunnel

To use the VPN Logs screen to determine the status of a VPN tunnel, perform the following steps:

1.Log in to the VPN Firewall Router.

2.Open the FVG318 Monitoring > VPN Logs to get the VPN Logs screen (see Figure 5-28).

This log shows the details of recent VPN activity, including the building of the VPN tunnel. If there is a problem with the VPN tunnel, refer to the log for information about what might be the cause of the problem.

•Click Refresh to see the most recent entries.

•Click Clear Log to delete all log entries.

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v1.0, September 2007