ProSafe Gigabit 8 Port VPN Firewall FVS318G Reference Manual
5-4 Virtual Private Networking
v1.1, August 2010
8. Click Apply to save your settings. The VPN Policies screen shows that the policy is now
enabled.
9. If you are connecting to another NETGEAR VPN firewall, use the VPN Wizard to configure
the second VPN firewall to connect to the one you just configured.
To display the status of your VPN connections, select VPN from the main menu and Connection
Status from the submenu. The Connection Status screen displays.
The tunnel will automatically establish when both the local and target gateway policies are
appropriately configured and enabled,
Figure 5-3
Figure 5-4
Note: When using FQDN, if the dynamic DNS service is slow to update their servers
when your DHCP WAN address changes, the VPN tunnel will fail because the
FQDN does not resolve to your new address. If you have the option to
configure the update interval, set it to an appropriately short time.