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| ProSafe Gigabit 8 Port VPN Firewall FVS318G Reference Manual | ||
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| Policy Name | A descriptive name of the VPN policy for identification and management | ||
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| Note: The name is not supplied to the remote VPN endpoint. | ||
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| • Auto Policy. Some settings (the ones in the Manual Policy Parameters section | ||
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| • Manual Policy. All settings must be specified, including the ones in the Manual | ||
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| Policy Parameters section of the screen. | ||
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| Remote Endpoint | Select a radio button to specify how the remote endpoint is defined: | ||
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| • IP Address. Enter the IP address of the remote endpoint in the fields to the | ||
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| • FQDN. Enter the FQDN of the remote endpoint in the field to the right of the | ||
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| Enable NetBIOS? | Select this checkbox to allow NetBIOS broadcasts to travel over the VPN tunnel. | ||
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| For more information about NetBIOS, see “Configuring NetBIOS Bridging with | ||
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| VPN” on page | ||
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| Enable Keepalive | Select a radio button to specify if Keepalive is enabled: | ||
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| • Yes. This feature is enabled: periodically, the VPN firewall sends ping packets | ||
| Note: See also | to the remote endpoint to keep the tunnel alive. You must enter the ping IP | ||
| “Configuring | address, detection period, and the maximum number of times that the VPN | ||
| Keepalives and | firewall attempts to reconnect (see below). | ||
| Dead Peer | • No. This feature is disabled. This is the default setting. | ||
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| Ping IP Address |
| The IP address that the VPN firewall pings. The address | |
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| Detection period |
| The period in seconds between the ping packets. The default |
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| Reconnect after |
| The maximum number of Keepalive requests before the VPN |
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| failure count |
| firewall tears down the connection and then attempts to |
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| reconnect to the remote endpoint. The default is 3 Keepalive |
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