Reference Manual for the ProSafe VPN Firewall FVS318v3
Basic Virtual Private Networking 5-27
January 2005
Figure 5-32: VPN Status/Log screen
3. Click VPN Status (Figure 5-32) to get the Current VPN Tunnels (SAs) screen (Figure 5-33).
Click Connect for the VPN tunnel you want to activate.
Figure 5-33: Current VPN Tunnels (SAs) screen
Activate the VPN Tunnel by Pinging the Remote Endpoint
Note: This section uses 192.168.3.1 for an example remote endpoint LAN IP address.
To activate the VPN tunnel by pinging the remote endpoint (192.168.3.1), do the following steps
depending on whether your configuration is client-to-gateway or gateway-to-gateway:
•Client-to-Gateway Configuration—to check the VPN Connection, you can initiate a request
from the remote PC to the FVS318v3’s network by using the “Connect” option in the
NETGEAR ProSafe menu bar. The NETGEAR ProSafe client will report the results of the
attempt to connect. Since the remote PC has a dynamically assigned WAN IP address, it must
initiate the request.
To perform a ping test using our example, start from the remote PC: